Berle-Kari (Berle-Kåre;Old Norse :Berðlu-Kári ) was aviking chieftain who lived in ninth-centuryNorway . His home was atBerle (Old Norse :Berðla ), in present-dayBremanger inSogn og Fjordane county.Landnámabók Iceland .
According toEgil's Saga berserker , and a comrade-at-arms of Ulf the Fearless (Úlfr inn óargi).[ a] Olvir Hnufa , who became askald in the court ofHarald I of Norway ,Eyvind Lambi , who became one of Harald'shersirs , and a daughter,Salbjorg , who marriedKveldulf Bjalfason . Kveldulf being grandson of the elder Ulf.[ 2] [ b]
^ This according to William Sayers, who points out Kvelulfr is mistakenly identified as Berle-Kari (Berðlu-Kári)'s partner.[ 1] ^ Sayers is in agreement on this point.[ 3] Citations ^ Sayers, William (2016),"Verbal Expedients and Transformative Utterances in Episodes of Egils saga Skallagrímssonar" ,Scandinavian Studies ,88 (2): 182 (endnote 1),[Phillip] Theisohn errs on several points of detail: ... Úlfr inn óargi, not Kveldúlfr ([2009 paper, ] 148), is Berðlu-Kári's partner in the opening chapter of the saga. ] ^ Egil's Saga (Chapter 1,Pálsson & Edwards 1976 , p. 21). See Pálsson and Edwards' introduction, where thestemma indicates Kveldulf and Salbjorg are spouses (p. 14) and Berle-Kari is Egil's great-grandfather(p. 11)^ Sayers, William (2015),"Generational Models for the Friendship of Egill and Arinbjǫrn" (PDF) ,Scripta Islandica ,66 : 145,the marriage of Úlfr's grandson, Úlfr Bjálfason (called Kveld-Úlfr), to Kári's daughter Salbjǫrg. Bibliography Ellwood, Rev. Thomas (1898).The Book of the Settlement of Iceland Landnámabók Ari Þorgilsson ). Highgate, London: Kendal - T. Wilson. Pálsson, Hermann; Edwards, Paul (1976).Egil's Saga 11 , 14, 21, 241. Thorsson, Örnólfur; Smiley, Jane, eds. (2001). "Egil's Saga" [translated by Bernard Scudder].The Sagas of the Icelanders 3– 184.ISBN 978-0-14-100003-9
