 Bróðir ( also Brodir or Brodar or anglicised as Broderick ) and Óspak ( also <unk> , <unk> or Ospak ) were two Danish brothers who lived on the west coast of the Isle of Man . According to Njál 's saga , Óspak was a heathen , described as " the wisest of all men . " Bróðir had been " a Christian man and a mass @-@ deacon by consecration " , but he had <unk> and become " of all men most skilled in sorcery . " Bróðir was tall and strong , with long black hair that he wore tucked in under his belt , and he was clad in a coat of mail " which no steel could bite . " Between them , they had thirty ships , and were described by Gormflaith as " men of such hardihood that nothing can withstand them " . 
