Ólof sólskin (Olof Sunbeam)

Olof, called Sunbeam, is a great beauty wooed and won amid the early generations of the saga romance of Viglund the Fair — one of the radiant women whose marriages set the stage for the lovers' story. Her by-name, Sunbeam, marks her as one of the saga's images of dazzling loveliness, and her wooing belongs to the romance's opening movement, the founding matches of the older generation from which Viglund and Ketilrid spring. She belongs to the gentler, more courtly world of the one true saga romance — a tale shaped less by blood-feud than by love, beauty, and constancy. Olof Sunbeam is the saga's image of the radiant bride of the elder generation — the great beauty whose match helps set the romance in motion, a bright figure from the founding chapters of the corpus's tenderest, most love-centred tale.