Friday, March 19, 2021

Solveig Þorleifsdóttir's purchase deed for Staðarhóll and Flatatunga, dated April 15, 1479

Source:

Diplomatarium Islandicum: Íslenzkt Fornbréfasafn, Volume 6, page 183, published by Hið Íslenska Bókmentafélag, Reykjavík, 1900, 1904


Solveig Þorleifsdóttir declares that she has paid for Reverend Sigmund Steindórsson to Bishop Ólafur to pay him twenty hundred according to their letter of reconciliation, but separates himself and his heirs so much in Flatatunga, which she completes or has completed, but declares that Jón Sigmundsson does not allow the mortgaging of the land.

The letter:

bref solueigar vm flatatungu 1479.
Þath giore ek solueig þorleifsdotter godum monnum kvnnegt med þessv minv opnv brefi ad eg medkennvmzt ad ek hefer j borgan geinget fyrir sira sigmund steindorsson ad liuka biskup olaf a holvm tiutige hvndrada med suo dan skilmala ok salastefnvm sem j þeirra sættarbrefi stendur skrifad vtan þat eina ad ek skip aptur vnder mik ok mina erfingia suo miked upp j jordina flatatungu sem ek lyk eda læt ek livka. matti ok jon sigmvndzson alldre fyrnefnda jord flatatungu setia til panta vit nockvrn man þui hann ueit vel hversv hans bref þar um giort vtuisar. Enn ek vil giarna þar til leggia mitt fie an[n]ad en jordina ad min herra biskupin ok prestvrin sev þa betur satter epter en adur. þvi þat skal staudugt vera sem ek lofar hier vm. vora hia þessum minum giorninge ok lofan olafur kodransson ok jon snorrason. Ok til meire sannenda hier vm settv þesser fyrr nefnder menn sin incigle med minv incigle fyrir þetta bref skrifad a stadarhole j savrbæ fimtudagin j paskaviku. þaa er lidit uar fra hingatburd vors herra Jhesv christi M.° cd.° lxx.° ok niv aar.

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