Ann Naddodsdóttir

Ann Naddodsdóttir (* around 850 ? On the Faroe Islands ?; † beginning of the 10th century on Bressay , Shetland Islands / Great Britain ) was probably the daughter of the Faroese Viking Naddoddur , who is considered the discoverer of Iceland.

In 1864 a tombstone was found in the cemetery of St. Mary's Church on Bressay, which dates back to the early 10th century and is decorated with Christian crosses and ornaments that are of Nordic origin.

In 1996 Kathrine Stuart Forsyth from Harvard University confirmed the decipherment:

On the front it says:

CRROSCC :  NAHHTVVDDAddS  :  DATTRR  :  aNN   

and on the back

BEN(n)iSESMEQQDDRoANN

According to Forsyth (and other researchers before) this is translated into Old Norse as follows :

HER :  KROSSUR :  NADDODDSDÓTTIR :  ANN

Back:

(AV) BEINIR SONUR DRÓIN

Forsyth thinks that this Ann Naddodsdóttir was the daughter of Naddoddur, the Faroese Viking. Her son Beinir Dróinsson (MacDroan), who built the stone, is said to be the legendary Beinir from the Faroese saga , the brother of Brestir . If Brestir and Beinir were indeed the sons of Naddoddur's daughter Ann, then they were already (Celtic) Christians. But then Brestir's son Sigmundur Brestisson was a Christian from birth.

literature

• Katherine S. Forsyth: The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland. To Edited Corpus . Harvard University Dissertation, Cambridge, Mass. 1996