“At Berunes lived Bjarni Jónsson, a silversmith, son-in-law of the Reverend Einar Sigurðsson of Eydalir, an elderly man. He had seen better than most what the raiders were up to, since the ships lay in the fjord in front of his farm. He thought it unwise to cross their path and therefore withdrew, with most of his household and several other men, up into a valley in the mountain above—into Krossdalur. There was fog higher up, all the way down to mid-slope, and it was easy for men familiar with the area to hide.” (Jón Helgason, 1983:34). In Ættum Austfirðinga III, no. 6224, there is an entry on Sigríður Einarsdóttir, the mistress of the house at Berunes. She was born around 1580. Her first husband was Bjarni Jónsson, born 1565, dead before 1648, a farmer and silversmith at Berunes. After Bjarni’s death Sigríður married Björn Hermannsson, and they lived at Berunes. She herself had died by 1657, when Björn is listed there alone. Sigríður, the lady of Berunes, was mentally ill for a time, as was her sister Anna. They were sisters of Bishop Oddur of Skálholt. In the tales of the Turkish Raid, two old women are said to have been left behind at the Berunes farm when the people fled to the mountains. The southern slave-raiders found meagre pickings at Berunes when they knocked at the door: the only “loot” they turned up were two old and frail women. Judging them least saleable in the markets of Algiers, they killed them on the spot.