Tóra Sigmundsdóttir

Tóra Sigmundsdóttir (* around 980 in Ulfdal in Dovrefjell , Norway ; † after 1035 perhaps in Suðuroy , Faroe Islands ; also Torah ) is a figure in the Faroese saga .

Tóra lived in the Faroe Islands during the Viking Age , the end of which her father Sigmundur Brestisson initiated in 999 and her later husband Leivur Øssursson sealed in 1035. Her mother Turið Torkilsdóttir was considered the most powerful woman in the Faroe Islands in her time.

Tóra's parents met the Faroese saga and according to reconstructed dates around 973 in Ulfdal in Dovrefjell, when the young Sigmundur was in Norway and Turið lived there with her parents. They fell in love, and the saga tells that Tóra's mother was pregnant around 979. Hence, it can be assumed that Tóra was born either in 979 or 980. Since Sigmundur and his cousin Tóri Beinirsson are said to have moved from Ulfdal to Trondheim on their own at that time , it can still be assumed that Turið initially stayed with her parents and gave birth to their daughter Tóra there.

Tóra then spent most of her life in the Faroe Islands, which were then under the influence of the Vikings and the Norwegian crown .