Jon & Lori, May I also say that these are merely my comments, not documented proof of any facts. I only am saying what I have learned from my research and experience. And all of this is always open to question and further refinement or correction. I don't have at hand a source for the connection to Njal. I will try to find it for you. My SPECIFIC O'Neal genealogy is FULLY documented. Some 30 pages of my genealogy is documented by some 300 footnotes. It is always curious to me how absolutely sure people can be about the events of the centuries before written history of the common man existed. I personally am tracing backwards in time as far as I can go, but it is more clouded with each century. Documentation before 1000 is virtually non- existent (except for royal lines, which in our case I am pretty certain are irrelevant). Bob O'Neal