114 DANIEL BRUUN. 
“In this ice from the northern sea-bays most of the ships of yore ever 
foundered, of which much is related in the tale of Tostı, as Lika-Lodinn 
(corpse-Lodinn) got his nickname thereby, he often in the summer 
visited the northern uninhabited districts, and from there brought back 
with him the human bodies to the church, which he found in caves and 
clefts, their having come there from the flakes of ice or shipwrecks, but 
beside them often lay scratched runes, of all that occured and their mis- 
fortunes and sufferings.” 
In another tale it is related that Lika-Lodinn was so called, 
“because he had brought Finn Fegin’s and his crew’s bodies from Frys- 
BUDIR, Which lies east of the glaciers in Greenland, by command of 
King Olaf the Holy, because this Finn was a son of Ketil Kalf at 
Ringeness on Heidmörk, and Gunild, King Olaf’s sister.” 
It is now related, that when King Harold Sigurdsson, also called 
Hardrade, in August 1066, undertook his last disastrous campaign to 
England against King Harold Godvin’sson, accompanied by the brother, 
of the last mentioned, Tosti Godvinsson, they met Lika-Lodinn, who 
came by ship from Greenland, outside Sognefiord. Lodinn went on board 
and told the king about three wonders which had happened during the 
journey which could imply that he had been exposed to a volcanic 
outbreak. 
The Norwegian king fell in the battle of Stanford or Batlebridge 
in the neighbourhood of York, September 1568. 
It is said, that Lodinn accompanied the fleet, and that he according 
to his promise assisted at King Harold’s and his warrior’s temporary 
burial — the next year the corpse was ceremoniously taken back to 
Norway. 
What became of Lodinn we do not know, probably this Greenland 
shipmaster, after having ended his commercial journey, returned home 
to Greenland. 
Then we next hear of other less successful trading trips going 
through Greenland’s ice, which ended with shipwreck and disasters, such, 
for example, as it is shown in “Gudmund Aresson’s Saga”: Thorgeir 
Hallason from Eyjafiord (died 1169) was married to Hallbera from Rey- 
kianess. They had ten children. One of their sons was called Einar. He 
lost his life in Greenland, as the ship foundered in the uninhabited regions. 
“The crew had divided intotwo parties who at last quarreled, because 
the one party’s provisions were eaten before the other’s. Einar escaped 
from there with two others, and would search the settlement. He 
went up onto the glaciers and there they died, having only one day’s 
journey left to the settlement. The bodies were found the following 
winter. Einar’s body was whole and uninjured, he rests at Heriolfsness.” 
Thorgeir Hallason’s fourth son was INGIMUND, who was a passenger 
on board “Stangarfolv’? which was equipped in Bergen with Iceland as 
an aim, but: 
