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THE BRIDAL
WREATH
CONTENTS
| Jörundgaard | 3 |
| The Garland | 109 |
| Lavrans Björgulfsön | 219 |
BOOK ONE
1
WHEN the lands and goods of Ivar Gjesling theyounger, of Sundbu, were divided after hisdeath in 1306, his lands in Sil of Gudbrandsdalfell to his daughter Ragnfrid and her husband LavransBjörgulfsön. Up to then they had lived on Lavrans’manor of Skog at Follo near Oslo; but now they moved upto Jörundgaard at the top of the open lands of Sil.
Lavrans was of the stock that was known in this countryas the Lagmandssons. It had come here from Sweden withthat Laurentius, Lagmand of East Gotland, who took theBelbo Jarl’s sister, the Lady Bengta, out of Vreta convent,and carried her off to Norway. Sir Laurentius lived at theCourt of King Haakon the Old, and won great favour withthe King, who gave him the Skog manor. But when he hadbeen in the country about eight years he died in his bed,and his widow, who belonged to the Folkunga kindred, andhad the name of a King’s daughter among the Norwegians,went