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Hermann of Berunes

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When the Turks made their raiding journey in 1627, they came to Eyjar in Breiðdalur around mid-morning. “They seized everyone at home, took them all and bound them, except for a four-year-old boy named Hermann. Then they went off to look for more farms. It was very dim (fog down low but bright in the sky). When they were gone, Hermann’s mother said to him: — Don’t you have your busi (knife) in your little cot, so you can cut my bonds? The boy said yes, brought the knife, and in the end managed to cut enough that one of her hands came free. She then took the knife and cut off all her bonds and then those of the man next to her. She gave the knife to that man and asked him to free the rest of the people, while she herself ran to the mountains with little Hermann. In this way all the people escaped. When Hermann came of age he signed on a ship and sailed for a long time; it was said that he later came to own Berunes.” (Ættir Austfirðinga, no. 11307) Hermann Ásmundsson was born in 1623, which fits the folktale: he was four years old at the time of the 1627 raid. In the Jarðabréf from the 16th–17th centuries (p. 280) it is seen that Hermann acquired two hundreds in Berunes in 1677, and owned the entire farm according to a deed dated 13 July 1687. Hermann lived at Berunes until he died shortly after 1695.

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Alda Snæbjörnsdóttir. Dvergasteinn: Þjóðsögur og sagnir úr Djúpavogshreppi. Skrudda, 2018, bls. 149–160.

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Hermann of Berunes 
When the Turks made their raiding journey in 1627, they came to Eyjar in Breiðdalur around mid-morning.
“They seized everyone at home, took them all and bound them, except for a four-year-old boy named Hermann. Then they went off to look for more farms. It was very dim (fog down low but bright in the sky).
When they were gone, Hermann’s mother said to him:
— Don’t you have your busi (knife) in your little cot, so you can cut my bonds?
The boy said yes, brought the knife, and in the end managed to cut enough that one of her hands came free. She then took the knife and cut off all her bonds and then those of the man next to her. She gave the knife to that man and asked him to free the rest of the people, while she herself ran to the mountains with little Hermann. In this way all the people escaped.
When Hermann came of age he signed on a ship and sailed for a long time; it was said that he later came to own Berunes.” (Ættir Austfirðinga, no. 11307)
Hermann Ásmundsson was born in 1623, which fits the folktale: he was four years old at the time of the 1627 raid. In the Jarðabréf from the 16th–17th centuries (p. 280) it is seen that Hermann acquired two hundreds in Berunes in 1677, and owned the entire farm according to a deed dated 13 July 1687. Hermann lived at Berunes until he died shortly after 1695.

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