ID: 20147
Date of birth : 1855
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1950
Oddný Björnsdóttir Photo: SÁG
Oddný Björnsdóttir was born in 1855 in N. Múlasýsla. She died in Lundar in 1950. She had the last name Magnusson in the west.
Spouse: Magnús Sæbjarnarson, drowned in Iceland in 1900.
Children: 1. Anna b. 1885 2. Björn b. 1890 3. Sæbjörn d. November 13, 1913.
Oddný came west as a new widow with her son Sæbjörn in 1901. She went to the Lundar settlement and first lived with her brother Stefán and his family. She took land and lived on it with her son for a few years, but when he drowned in Lake Manitoba, she sold the land and moved to Lundar. Oddný took the Sæbjörn’s patronymic name in the west.