Leivur Øssursson

Leivur Øssursson (980 - 1047) was a Viking and Bóndi caudillo of Skúvoy, Faeroe Islands in the late 10th and early 11th centuries and appears as a historical figure in the Færeyinga saga and saga of Olaf II the Saint. >

Leivur was the son of the ill-fated warlord Øssur Havgrímsson who was the victim of a blood debt that his father Havgrímur nourished between 969 and 970 for a territorial dispute that lasted 65 years. He married Tóra Sigmundsdóttir, the daughter of Sigmundur Brestisson and Turið Torkilsdóttir. Sigmundur was one of the people responsible for the death of his father, but when he converted to Christianity he decided to put an end to blood debts.

In 1024 Leivur witnessed the end of the Faroese Commonwealth as free territory and the subjugation of territory to the Norwegian crown. King Olaf II the Holy had appointed three Faroese representatives of the crown in the archipelago: Gilli as Løgmaður (prime minister), Tólrolv Sigmundsson and Leivur Øssursson, who became his vassals.Todur í Gøtu was still alive and the shadow of his power was elongated so little control and influence had Olaf II actually. By 1025 two Norwegian ships were sent to the archipelago with the intention of collecting the due taxes, but never arrived at their destination and disappeared without a trace, and a third ship arrived at port but the royal envoy for the defense of the island Karl hinn mørske was killed.

The situation changes after the death in 1035 of Tróndur. Leivur, devout Christian, took control on the autocracy of Tróndur and obtained the power of the archipelago under the government of Magnus the Good. Leivur also finished the Viking Age in the archipelago. Bibliography

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