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960 in Ulfdal in Dovrefjell, Norway, died ca. 1047 in Skúvoy. During the Viking Age in the Faroe Islands, she was a powerful influential woman. After her husband"s death in 1005, she was generally called Þurið Megineinkja, "chieftain"s widow".
Þurið was the daughter of Ragnhild Þoralfsdóttir and Þorkil Barfrost.
According to the Færeyinga saga, the wedding took place at Håkon Jarl’s farm near Trondheim and lasted for seven days. Þurið and Sigmundur later had four sons, Þórálfr, Steingrímr, Brandr and Heri Sigmundsson, who all lived on the farm in Skúvoy.
