[1][2][a] The year of Haukr's birth is not known,[3] but his mother's name was Jorunn (Old Norse: Jórunn),[4] whose ancestry is traceable to a brother of King Halfr of Hordaland, hero of Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka.
[5][b][c] Hauk may have been an illegitimate offspring,[3] although the question of whether his mother was Erlend's "first wife or mistress" is an open speculation.
[1] Around 1301 he arrived in Norway, and served from 1303 to 1322 as lawspeaker (Norwegian: lagmann) in Oslo and on the Gula Thing.
"[12] The Hauksbók is a compilation that includes Icelandic sagas and a redaction of the Landnámabók, as well as an arithmetical treatise called the Algorismus.
[3] The following stemma is drawn from the genealogy appended to the last chapter of Eiríks saga rauða in Hauk's own recension (in the Hauksbók, supplemented with additional information from the Landnámabók).