Gunnar is the most attractive and unreservedly admired of Icelandic saga heroes,a man of heroism, energy, virtue, and --- above all --- unswerving loyalty to the land of his birth and love for its overpowering physical beauty
Tricked by his enemies into disobeying the warnings of his prescient friend Njáll and killing twice in the same family, he is sentenced at the Alþing to three years' exile in Norway. Njáll tells Gunnar that if he accepts this sentence and goes to Norway, he will return to Iceland more famous than ever and will live to be an old man; if he remains in Iceland, however, he will die. Gunnar arranges passage on a ship and early one morning, bidding farewell to family and friends at home, he and his faithful brother Kolskeggur (who has received an identical sentence) set off on their journey.
"I am not going to leave," said Gunnar. "And I wish you would stay too."
Gunnar's sudden decision to change his plans leads to his death the following year.
Gunther (in Latin Gundaharius and in Anglicized Old Norse Gunnar) was a king of the Burgundians west of the Rhine from at least 411 to his death in 437. ...
All the while, Gunnar Racing was making a name for itself, for restoring the most historic of Porsche's racing cars, including 917s, 908s (both long tail coupes, and short tail spyders), and 910s, all the way back to the earliest RSKs and Speedsters.
Gunnar Racing took on a new amount of enthusiasm, in 1999, as Kevin's son Gunnar, who grew up in, and around, the cars his father was preparing, took to the sport, as a driver, at age 17.
Since then, Gunnar Racing ran the 2000 Rolex 24, with Gunnar and Paul Newman driving, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where they finished 6th in the GT class, and Gunnar went into the record books, as the youngest driver ever to complete the race, at 18 years, and 33 days old.
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