booths of the Axefirthers

Öxarfjörður located on a map of Iceland. Öxfiringingar (Öxfirdhingar, Old Norse: Clan of the Ax) was a powerful family clan of the Viking Age during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth, centuries IX and X, and they had certain protagonism in the Icelandic colonization in the times of Ánsteinn Her story appears mainly in the saga of Njál, where Bjarni Brodd-Helgason intercedes for Flosi Þórðarson to support him during the Althing of 1012 by the burning and death of Njáll Þorgeirsson and the Öxfirðingar promise support for their cause.

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