Berle-Kari

Berle-Kari (or Berle-Kåre) was a viking chieftain who lived in ninth-century Norway. His home was at Berle (Old Norse: Berðla), in present-day Bremanger in Sogn og Fjordane county. Landnámabók names him as the son of Vemund, and brother of Skjoldolf, one of the early settlers of Iceland.

According to Egil's Saga, Kari was a berserker. He had three children: Olvir Hnufa, who became a skald in the court of Harald I of Norway, Eyvind Lambi, who became one of Harald's hersirs, and a daughter, Salbjorg, who married Kveldulf Bjalfason.^[1]

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Notes

1. http://books.google.com/books?id=23B6nto3j-0C&lpg=PA12&dq=Berle-Kari&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=Berle-Kari&f=false

Bibliography

• Ellwood, Rev. Thomas (1898). The Book of the Settlement of Iceland (Translated from the original Landnámabók by Ari Þorgilsson). Highgate, London: Kendal - T. Wilson.
• Thorsson, Örnólfur; Smiley, Jane, eds. (2001). "Egil's Saga" [translated by Bernard Scudder]. The Sagas of the Icelanders. Penguin Books. pp. 3–184. ISBN 978-0-14-100003-9.