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Eysteinn Ásgrímsson

Died in 1361

Eysteinn Ásgrímsson was born around 1310. An Augustinian canon of the abbey of Þykkvabær, he was imprisoned in 1343, probably for having struck his abbot, perhaps also for having broken his vow of chastity, and then sent to the monastery of Helgafell. An officer of the bishopric of Skálholt, he accompanied the bishop to Norway in 1355 and returned in 1357 with the title of inspector of the bishopric, for which the bishop excommunicated him. He died on 14 March 1361 at the monastery of Helgisetr, in Niðarós. Some doubt that the monk and the officer are the same man.

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