Gudmund the Powerful
Known as “the Powerful”. Status: curated
Narrative prominence
Kin
No parent/child links recorded.
Also appears in
Believed to be the same person as Gudmund the Mighty in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar. medium confidence
Njáls saga: "Gudmund the Powerful" / "Gudmund the Mighty". Grettis saga ch. ~59-63 (Hight): "Gudmund the Mighty" appears twice as a chieftain consulted alongside Snorri the Godi on legal/political matters -- the same paired-chieftains context in which Guðmundr inn ríki conventionally appears in saga literature.
Caveat: The bootstrapped Grettis saga entity table originally merged "Gudmund the Mighty" with an unrelated minor figure, "Gudmund the son of Solmund" of Asbjarnarnes (ch. 28, 34), under one bare-name entity -- confirmed by inspecting every "Gudmund" occurrence in the source text. That entity has been manually split into grettla:gudmund-the-mighty (linked here) and grettla:gudmund-solmundarson (not linked, a different person); see the notes on both entities in data/entities/grettla.yaml. Confidence stays "medium" rather than "high" because, unlike the Hoskuld/Hrut link, no passage in this corpus narrates matching parentage for the two Gudmunds -- the identification still rests on the epithet plus the paired-chieftain context, standard saga-scholarship practice but not re-derived here from genealogy alone.
This links the person, not the character’s network position: each saga keeps its own separate mentions, edges, and centrality scores for this entity. See Methods.
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Relations and evidence
Kinship(2)
with Eyjolf Bolverk's son · weight 1 · ch. 112–112
“He was the son of Eyjolf the son of Einar.”
with Halldor · weight 1 · ch. 156–156
“Fifteen men of the Burners fell in Brian's battle, and there, too, fell Halldor the son of Gudmund the powerful, and Erling of Straumey.”
Friendship(1)
with Asgrim Ellida-Grim's son · weight 1 · ch. 112–112
“Gudmund was a friend of Asgrim Ellidagrim's son, and so he hoped to get his help.”
Conversation(2)
with Njal Thorgeir's son · weight 1 · ch. 119–119
“"There is no man like Gudmund for nobleness of mind," and then he told it to Njal.”
with Gizur the White · weight 1 · ch. 144–144
“Gizur the white, and Hjallti Skeggi's son, and Asgrim Ellidagrim's son, asked Gudmund the powerful to come and see them at home.”