Turið Torkilsdóttir

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Turið Torkilsdóttir [ ˈtuːɹɪ ˈtɔʃtʃɪlsˌdœtːɪɹ ] "Megineinkja" (* around 960 in Ulfdal in Dovrefjell, Norway ; † before 1047 in Skúvoy ? / Faroe Islands ) is a figure in the Faroe Islands saga . In other languages ​​it is also called Icelandic Þuríður , English Thurið , Danish Turid , German Thuride ; Megineinkja [ ˈmɛːjɪnˌanca ] (chief widow ) was her nickname since 1005.

background

Turið [ ˈtuːrɪ ] was the first Faroese woman in history who is known about more than just her name. She was an influential woman during the Viking Age in the Faroe Islands . The first name Turið is still a common female name in the Faroe Islands today .

Turið was the daughter of Ragnhild Toralfsdóttir and Torkil Barfrost from Norway. Turið's surname Torkilsdóttir ( Torkils daughter ) serves to distinguish it from other bearers of the first name, in literature she is usually only called Turið (chief widow) . The year of her birth is not known, but the Faroese saga tells that Sigmundur Brestisson and Tóri Beinisson came to Ulfdal in Dovrefjell on their trip through Norway around 973 , where Turið's parents lived, and that she was "very young" at the time, and later had a relationship with Sigmundur started and was pregnant by him around 979. It can be assumed that she was about the same age as the then 18-year-old.

So while her daughter Tóra was born around this time, she probably didn't marry Sigmundur until 986, after he was in Norway for the third time. According to the Faroese saga, the wedding is said to have taken place on the farm of King Håkon Jarl near Trondheim and lasted seven days. In autumn the young family moved to the Faroe Islands, where Turið spent the rest of their lives.

Together with Sigmundur, she had four other children, the sons Tórálvur , Steingrímur , Brandur and Heri . They all lived on the farm in Skúvoy .

literature

  • Carl Christian Rafn, Gottlieb Mohnike, J. H Schröter: Faereyínga saga or history of the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands in the Icelandic basic text with Faroese, Danish and German translations . Published by Schubotheschen Buchhandlung, Copenhagen 1833, OCLC 219938092 ( PDF, here pp. 77–126. ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Søgugongdin í Føroyinga søgu on snar.fo (PDF, Faroese)
  2. ↑ Turið. (No longer available online.) In: nordicnames.de. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016 ; Retrieved August 20, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nordicnames.de
  3. ↑ a b Tóra og Turið (Tora and Turid) on ordafragd.com (PDF, pp. 2–3, Faroese)
personal data
SURNAME Torkilsdóttir, Turið
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Megineinkja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese woman
DATE OF BIRTH around 960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulfdal, Dovrefjell , Norway
DATE OF DEATH between 1005 and 1047
Place of death uncertain: Skúvoy , Faroe Islands