Ásbjörn Hrafnkelsson

Asbjörn is Hrafnkell's younger son — part of the line through which the proud chieftain's restored fortune passes after his fall and second rise. When the humbled Hrafnkell rebuilds his power from nothing at his new farm and at last recovers his standing, it is to sons like Asbjörn that the hard-won inheritance descends; Asbjörn later holds Aðalból, the great seat his father lost and regained. He belongs to the saga's quiet closing concern with succession and continuity — the next generation that inherits a chieftain's restored estate and carries his line on. Asbjörn is the saga's image of the heir of the second rise — the son who comes into the seat his father fell from and clawed back, the living proof that Hrafnkell's patient recovery of his power was not for himself alone but for the line that holds Aðalból after him.