Two cousins, one pagan and one Christian, settle side by side below Mount Esja.

I'm Rob, your host, and this is Iceland Daily and the Sagas, your morning walk through Iceland today and its medieval sagas.

First, three stories from Iceland: Air China's first scheduled flight from Beijing lands at Keflavík, Iceland's first scheduled link to mainland China (Keflavík Airport, Iceland Review); tourism turnover reached 252 billion krónur in July and August, up about 7% (Statistics Iceland); and Reykjavík Opera Days celebrates its tenth year, with opera in swimming pools and on the city pond (Óperudagar, Harpa).

Then our theme: an argument at the assembly, or rather an alliance. Helgi bjóla takes all of Kjalarnes and lives at Hof, the Temple farm. His cousin Örlygur, fostered by a Bishop Patrick in the Hebrides, sails with church timber, an iron bell and holy earth, names Patreksfjörður after the bishop in a storm while his foster brother Kollur calls on Thor and is wrecked at Kollsvík, and builds a church to Saint Columba at Esjuberg on Helgi's advice.

We compare Hauksbók, Sturlubók, Þórðarbók and Íslendingabók on the three mountains or two, the floating bell, Kollur's prayer and the two cousins as advisers to the Kjalarnes assembly, and visit Esjuberg, Patreksfjörður and Örlygshöfn.