In the Berunes place-name register there is mention of a cleft in the cliffs a short way inside the boundary between Karlstaðir and Berunes, called Staðarhvammsgjót. “From the cleft a streak (track) runs into the rocks, called Ræningjarák (‘Raiders’ Track’). It got its name, the story says, in the Turkish Raid, when the raiders went along this track as they chased the Berunes people up toward the mountain. The story goes on that a local man had taken a postilla (a book of sermons) with him as he fled from the raiders, and to get away from them he leapt across a rock gully but dropped the book into the gully.” (Ármann Halldórsson III, 1976:385) Elsewhere it is said this was Vídalínspostilla, which the man grabbed in hope of God’s protection through the holy book; but as in the former tale, it fell into the gully during the flight. The snag with that version is that Bishop Jón Vídalín had not yet been born when the Turks raided Berufjörður, and therefore had not written his postil. But into the gully the book went, and it was most likely some other powerful scripture. Perhaps it delayed the raiders, or they took it as a bad omen when they saw the book of God’s word fly down into the gully and tear apart on the rocks. The gully has since been called Postillugil (“Sermon-Book Gully”).