The band was formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, who were joined by twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir.

Skelfir was father of Skjöld ( Skjǫldr ), father of Eirík, father of Alrek ( Alrekr ), father of Eirík the Eloquent, father of Alrek the Bold ( Alrekr inn frækni ), father of Víkar ( Víkarr ), father of Vatnar ( Vatnarr ), father of two sons: Ímald ( Ímaldr ) and Eirík, this Eirik being father of Gyda ( Gyða ) who was one of the wives of Harald Fairhair.

In the Ættartolur the two sons are instead named Ímald ( Ímaldr ) and Eirík, Eirík being the father of Gyda ( Gyða ) who married Harald Fairhair.

Jón Þór Birgisson, Kjartan Sveinsson, and Orri Páll Dýrason ( most of the members of Sigur Rós ), María Huld Markan ( of Amiina ), Gyða Valtýsdóttir ( formally of múm ), Pall Jenkins and Matt Resovich ( of the Blackheart Procession ) all contributed to the record with Birgir Jón " Biggi " Birgisson, engineering at Sigur Rós ’ Sundlaugin studio.

He allied himself with Olof of Sweden and Sweyn Forkbeard whose daughter, Gyða, he married.

Foster left the band in 1987.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Moses is ordered to make plates to cover the altar with the two hundred fifty censers left after the destruction of Korah's band.

Brown left the band in 1932 to form the Musical Brownies, the first true Western swing band.

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

After touring for Celebrity Skin finished, Auf der Maur left the band to tour with The Smashing Pumpkins ; Hole's touring drummer Samantha Maloney left soon after.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

They secured a record contract with Capitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.

6025 left the band in March 1979.

Brandon Cruz left the band in May 2003 and was replaced by Jeff Penalty.

Jeff Penalty left the band in March 2008 in what he describes as a " not amicable split.

D. H. also left the band to " take some personal time off ".

It is not unheard-of, however, for a band to redo old tracks that originally left them displeased for an album re-release on a major label or a second edition.

Frustrated by his band-mates ' limited aspirations, Bowie left the Konrads and joined another band, the King Bees.

This lineup of Devo lasted until 1976 when Jim left the band.

Shortly after, claiming to feel creatively uninspired, Alan Myers left the band.

In the late 1960s, Roy Wood — guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of The Move — had an idea to form a new band that would use violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, taking rock music in the direction " that The Beatles had left off ".

In January 1970, when Carl Wayne left The Move, Lynne accepted Wood's second invitation to join the band on the condition that they focus their energy on the new project.

During the recordings for the band's second LP, Wood left the band taking cellist McDowell and horn player Hunt with him to form Wizzard.

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

The small band of adventurers dragged as much gold and silver as they could carry back across some 18 miles of jungle-covered mountains to where they had left the raiding boats.

While in England with The Byrds in the summer of 1968, Parsons left the band due to his concerns over a planned concert tour of South Africa, citing opposition to that country's apartheid policies.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

On the morning of Stanley's return, however, her strength left her.

As he left the bandstand to return to his office, the slender, sun-tanned Chief Executive paused along the way to shake hands with the members of the audience in wheel chairs forming the first row under the field tent set up for the guests.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

True or not, Caracalla, pursued by devils of his own, left Rome never to return.

Hasan Ali Shah left for Bombay and the British attempted to obtain permission for his return to Persia.

In an attempt to have her return to Constantinople, the conspirators produced pamphlets that mocked and slandered the empress, and left them in her tent.

Anacharsis to Croesus: O king of the Lydians, I am come to the country of the Greeks, in order to become acquainted with their customs and institutions ; but I have no need of gold, and shall be quite contented if I return to Scythia a better man than I left it.

Andrew left for his campaign in the summer 1213 when he was informed that a group of conspirators had murdered his queen on 28 September and he had to return.

Fan favorite and Diamondbacks stalwart Luis Gonzalez did not return as the left fielder for the Diamondbacks.

In 1702 Scarlatti left Naples and did not return until the Spanish domination had been superseded by that of the Austrians.

Leaving his second son Timur Shah to safeguard his interests, Ahmad Shah left India to return to Afghanistan.

He left Alexandria to return to the old Roman fort upon the end of the persecutions.

He left the state of Lu without resigning, remaining in self-exile and unable to return as long as Viscount Ji Huan was alive.

After his return he left active service but remained at half pay.

It was left unannounced whether Coronation Street would return the following day, but it was later announced that it would not be returning that week, and return the following Monday as a result of what had happened.

Mather set the moral tone in the colonies, and sounded the call for second-and third-generation Puritans, whose parents had left England for the New England colonies of North America, to return to the theological roots of Puritanism.

Deciding to return home, Kidd left the Adventure Galley behind, ordering her to be burnt because she had become worm-eaten and leaky.

That return rate may seem low, but it is still positive after all of our discounting, suggesting that the investment decision is probably a good one: it produces enough profit to compensate for tying up capital and incurring risk with a little extra left over.

Oxford left Venice in March, intending to return home by way of Lyons and Paris ; although one later report has him as far south as Palermo in Sicily.

In 1841, he left Parliament and didn't return to politics until 1852 ; this time, having differed from the policy of Lord John Russell over the Corn Laws, he stood for Hertfordshire as a Conservative.

However, Wright soon realized that he was not ready to handle building design by himself ; he left his new job to return to Joseph Silsbee — this time with a raise in salary.

In Europe, most countries left the gold standard with the start of World War I in 1914 and, with huge war debts, failed to return to gold as a medium of exchange.

She left Adam and refused to return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael.