ellauri024.html on line 1203: Í Sturlungu er Flateyjar getið, en ekkert svo hægt sé að glöggva sig á lífinu og búsháttum þar. Flateyjarbók getur þess að á eftir Sturlungaöld hafi sumar ættir í landinu risið hærra en aðrar og hafi Englendingar meðal annars slæðst til landsins og stundað viðskipti og fiskveiðar. Upp úr 1520 eignast Jón Björnsson af ætt Skarðverja, sem þá var ein af höfuðættum landsins, Flatey og var eyjan þá búin að vera í fjölskyldunni í að a.m.k. fjóra ættliðiði. Á sama tíma eignast Jón Flateyjarbók. Hún var geymd í eynni fram til 15. september 1647 þegar Brynjólfur biskup fékk hana að gjöf og færði konungi að gjöf. Þá var bókin orðin 250 ára, enda skrifuð á 14. öld.
ellauri083.html on line 157: Independent People is the story of the sheep farmer Guðbjartur Jónsson, generally known in the novel as Bjartur of Summerhouses, and his struggle for independence.
ellauri083.html on line 163: However, Rósa is miserable in her new home, which does not compare well to the luxury she was used to at Rauðsmýri. Bjartur also discovers that she is pregnant by Ingólfur Arnarson Jónsson, the son of the bailiff. In the autumn, Bjartur and the other men of the district ride up into the mountains on the annual sheep round-up, leaving Rósa behind with a gimmer to keep her company. Terrified by a storm one night, desperate for meat and convinced that the gimmer is possessed by the devil, Rósa kills and eats the animal.
ellauri083.html on line 167: The narrative begins again almost thirteen years later. Bjartur is now remarried to a woman who had been a charity case on the parish, Finna. The other new inhabitants are Hallbera, Finna's mother, and the three surviving sons of Bjartur's second marriage: Helgi, Gvendur (Guðmundur) and Nonni (Jón).
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