Murder of Brestir and Beinir

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The murder of Brestir and Beinir took place around 970 on Stóra Dímun , Faroe Islands , and is an episode of the Faroe Islands saga and thus the history of the Viking Age in the Faroe Islands .

The trigger for this conspiracy against the two powerful brothers Brestir and Beinir from Skúvoy , who ruled over half of the Faroe Islands, was the dispute between Einar and Eldjarn the year before ( see there ). Their adversary Havgrímur von Hov subsequently forged a coalition in which the large farmer Tróndur í Gøtu remained approvingly in the background, while his uncle Svínoyar-Bjarni could be won over for active participation - both for immense material compensation for life.

In addition to their ancestral home in Skúvoy, Brestir and Beinir also had the farm on Stóra Dímun. From there they worked the uninhabited island of Lítla Dímun . In the spring of 970 they drove to the small, hard-to-reach rock island to graze their sheep there as usual. Their respective sons Sigmundur Brestisson and Tóri Beinirsson , then 9 and 11 years old respectively, were there.

On the way back they met three boats, each with 12 armed men on board, who stood in their way to prevent them from continuing. According to tradition, they looked for another landing site on the island and holed up in the cliffs. Havgrímur, Svínoyar-Bjarni and their men followed them there, while Tróndur and his boat crew waited on the shore. The fight was initially undecided, and so Havgrímur is said to have turned to Tróndur with a request for active help, but the latter denied - after all, they were 24 to 2, so clearly in the superiority. Havgrímur attacked again. In the end, Brestir and Beinir were killed, but Havgrímur and five of his people also fell.

Sigmundur and Tóri witnessed their two fathers being killed.

Tróndur í Gøtu, who kept a safe distance during the fight, is said to have suggested killing the two sons (Sigmundur and Tóri) so that they could not take revenge later. Svínoyar-Bjarni, who survived the fight, refused and so they agreed that Tróndur should take the two boys with him to Gøta to raise them there. Havgrímur's 10-year-old son Øssur Havgrímsson was also adopted by Tróndur. Tróndur í Gøtu had thus in fact gained complete power over the Faroe Islands.

Brestir and Beinir were buried in Skúvoy , Havgrímur in Hov.

literature

  • Carl Gottlob Friedrich Küchler, Die Faeröer: Studien un Wanderfahrten , G. Müller (Ed.) 1913, p. 18.
  • Volver arriba ↑ Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, Volume 23, 1990, p. 61.
  • GVC Young: Færøerne. Fra vikingetiden til reformations. København: Rosenkilde og Bakker, 1982
  • Færøyingesagaen, Flatøybok, Saga bok, 2014, Volume 1, p. 257

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