User:JG 28/Vatnsdæla saga

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Vatnsdæla saga (listen) is one of the sagas of Icelanders. It is essentially a family chronicle, probably written just after the middle of the thirteenth century. The events in the Saga take place in the Vatnsdal area in northwestern Iceland.

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Vatnsdæla saga follows the history of a family originally from Norway. A man named Þorsteinn Ketillsson