ID: 6114
Date of birth : 1870
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1915
Björn Frímann Jósafatsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla on October 7, 1869. He took the last name Walter in the west. He died in Warford, N. Dakota in 1915.
Spouse: Soffía Halldórsdóttir b. 1879 in Húnavatnssýsla.
Children: 1. Jóhannes 2. Haraldur 3. Svava 4. Halldóra 5. Helen.
Björn emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1885 with his parents and settled with them in the Pembina Settlement in N. Dakota. Soffía emigrated west with her mother and siblings in 1889. Björn moved north to Winnipeg and published the Heimskringla for a few years.