[1] However, Jana K. Schulman in her article "Make Me a Match: Motifs of Betrothal in the Sagas of the Icelanders."
suggests that in the sagas, successful relationships are portrayed as being composed of partners of equal status and standing.
Upon hearing of Jórunn as well as learning that her father, Björn, was one of the most prominent farmers in all of Strandir, he set off with a group of men to seek her hand in marriage.
However, she ultimately turns the decision back over to her father and the betrothal is agreed upon with a large dowry.
It was called a very grand wedding feast and all the guests returned home happy with many wonderful gifts.
Later when Höskuldr returns from another trip to Norway with Melkorka, a concubine whom he purchased from Gilli the Russian, Jórunn mocks him for not knowing her name or even talking with her before carrying on relations with her.
Although the saga author puts stock in Melkorka's royal Irish heritage, as seen through both Höskuldr's reaction to the revelation ("Hoskuld said that she had too long concealed such a noble birth.
"[4]) as well as Egill Skallagrímsson's when speaking of Ólafr pái who is Melkorka and Höskuldr's son ("haven’t you heard that he is the grandson of king Myrkjartan?