Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir)

[1][2] Upon learning of the death of Thorstein, Aud, who was then at Caithness, commissioned the construction of a knarr, a type of ship used in the Viking Age for Atlantic voyages.

When Aud arrived in the western region of Iceland, she claimed all the land in Dalasýsla between the rivers Dögurðará and Skraumuhlaupsá for her family, and gave the thralls their freedom (making them freedmen, with a status between slave and free).

[9] Laxdæla saga, however, calls her Unn the Deep-Minded (Unnr in djúpúðga) and depicts her as a heathen woman renowned for her wisdom; according to its account, she died during the wedding feast for her grandson and was given a ship burial.

The National Museum of Iceland contains a collection of somewhat debased penannular brooches and pins of undoubted Celtic provenance from the ninth and tenth centuries which would fit well in the context of the Hebridean Norse–Gael.

[15][16] A loosely-based Aud, also daughter of Ketill Flatnose and involved with the settlement of Iceland, is portrayed by Leah McNamara in the 5th season of the historical drama television series Vikings (2013).