[1] A Norwegian weather station built in Nanuuseq Fjord in 1932 was named Torgilsbu,[2] after this legendary hero.
[3] The chapters 1-9 and 18 of the Flóamanna saga detail Torgils' ancestry according to Sturla Þórðarson's version of Landnámabók.
The ship sank off the eastern coast of Greenland and the roughly 30 castaways made their way south with difficulty on account of the ice floes and bad weather.
One day, while Torgils climbed a mountain to check the condition of the ice some of the servants murdered the woman and escaped with the boat and the provisions, but the baby was unharmed.
Finally, after four years of struggles since the shipwreck, Torgils managed to reach the Norse settlement on the western coast with only his son and two remaining companions.