Gissur Teitsson
Icelandic nobleman
About Gissur Teitsson
Born 940. Gissur Teitsson was a gothi.
Gissur Teitsson ( ; Modern Icelandic: ) or Gissur the White was a chieftain or goði in Iceland at the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries. He played a preeminent role in the Christianisation of Iceland.
He was the father of Ísleifur Gissurarson and the grandfather of Gissur Ísleifsson, who served as the first two bishops of Iceland.
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Icelandic nobleman
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Gissur Teitsson was born in 940.
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