ID: 14580
Date of birth : 1860
Place of birth : V. Skaftafellssýsla
Bergur Gunnarsson was born on January 21, 1860 in Mýrdal in W. Skaftafellssýsla. He took the last name Myrdal in the west.
Spouse: October 22, 1882 Steinunn Þorkelsdóttir b. 1854 in W. Skaftafellssýsla, d. 1922.
Children: 1) Bergsteinn b. 1884 2) Þorsteinn b. 1885
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1902 and then on to the Argyle Settlement. They lived there until 1913 and then moved to Glenboro. In his later years, Bergur lived with the poet Ragnheiður J. Davíðsdóttir.