Ketill Flatnose brought his ship to Scotland, and was
well received by the great men there; for he was a renowned man,
and of high birth. They offered him there such station as he would
like to take, and Ketill and his company of kinsfolk settled down
there all except Thorstein, his daughter's son, who forthwith
betook himself to warring, and harried Scotland far and wide, and
was always victorious. Later on he made peace with the Scotch, and
got for his own one-half of Scotland. He had for wife Thurid,
daughter of Eyvind, and sister of Helgi the Lean. The Scotch did
not keep the peace long, but treacherously murdered him. Ari
Thorgils' son the Wise, writing of his death, says that he fell in
Caithness. Unn the Deepminded was in Caithness when her son
Thorstein fell. When she heard that Thorstein was dead, and her
father had breathed his last, she deemed she would have no
prospering in store there. So she had a ship built secretly in a
wood, and when it was ready built she arrayed it, and had great
wealth withal; and she took with her all her kinsfolk who were left
alive; and men deem that scarce may an example be found that any
one, a woman only, has ever got out of such a state of war with so
much wealth and so great a following. From this it may be seen how
peerless among women she was. Unn had with her many men of great
worth and high birth. A man named Koll was one of the worthiest
amongst her followers, chiefly owing to his descent, he being by
title a "Hersir". There was also in the journey with Unn a man
named Hord, and he too was also a man of high birth and of great
worth. When she was ready, Unn took her ship to the Orkneys; there
she stayed a little while, and there she married off Gro, the
daughter of Thorstein the Red. She was the mother of Greilad, who
married Earl Thorfinn, the son of Earl Turf-Einar, son of Rognvald
Mere-Earl. Their son was Hlodvir, the father of Earl Sigurd, the
father of Earl Thorfinn, and from them come all the kin of the
Orkney Earls. After that Unn steered her ship to the Faroe Isles,
and stayed there for some time. There she married off another
daughter of Thorstein, named Olof, and from her sprung the noblest
race of that land, who are called the Gate-Beards.
