Letter of approval from Abbess Oddbjörg of Staður for child support with Ingibjörg Örnólfsdóttir, year 1378

 Source:

Diplomatarium Islandicum: Íslenzkt Fornbréfasafn, Volume 3, page 334, published by S. L. Möllers, Copenhagen, 1896

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Oddbjörg, Abbess at Reynistað, with the consent of all the sisters of the convent and the head of the monastery, agrees that Narfi Sveinsson will give the monastery at Staður thirty hundred of the remaining forty hundred of the money that the farmer Örnólfur put with his daughter Ingibjörg to the monastery.

The letter:

R kl.

Systir othbeyrgh kǫllud abbadis at stad i reynisnesi kunngerir þat godum monnum sem þetta bref sea edr heẏra at ek med samþykki allra conuentv systra ok radz mannz bryniolfs biarnarsonar samþykkium ok stǫdugt gerum at narfi sueinsson luki stadnum þriatigi hundrada med þessum fridleika fim kyr ok fim asaudar kvgilldi tiu hundrath vôrv ok tiu hundrath i hafnar uád. stendr til leigv burdar i breidabolstad. xij. alner af hueriu hundradi þeirri sômu er hann hefer keypt at aurnolfi bonda ok skal iordin kuitt ok lidug stadarins vegna suo framt sem hann hefer lukt þessa. xxx hundrada. luka ut at fiorum arum. lukti greindr aurnolfr adr tiu hundruth frid. gaf fyrr nefndr aurnolfr þessa fioratigi. hundrada med ingibiorgu dottur sinni til stadar i reẏnis nesi. er aurnolfr suo framt kuittr ok lidugr af þessi skulld. sem narfi sueinsson iatar med handlagi radzmanni reẏnisnesstadar at luka. Ok til sanninda her um settum uær vart kapitula innsigli firir þetta bref sub anno graciæ Miij°. ccc°. lxx°. viij°.

Note: R kl = Reynistaðar Klaustrsbréf