The main plot of the saga, which takes place near Snæfellsnes between the years 1000 and 1025, and is about the disagreement between Bjǫrn and his rival Thord (Þórðr skáld Kolbeinsson).
[3] His grandmother was Sæunn Skallagrímsdóttir, making him a great-nephew of the warrior-poet Egill Skallagrímsson.
[4] He was fostered at Borg á Mýrum and grew up with Egill's grandson Skule Torsteinsson (Skúli Þórsteinsson).
It is notable for a passage that appears to describe a man being found to possess a woodcut depicting anal sex between two men.
Þat váru karlar tveir ok hafði annarr hǫtt blán á hǫfði.