The ''Hrafnistumannasögur'' is a group of
legendary sagas surrounding the family of
Ketil Trout of Halogaland. (Ketil is sometimes confused with his grandson,
Ketil Trout of Namdalen
Ketil Thorkelsson (Old Norse: ), better known by his nickname Ketil Trout or Ketil Salmon (O.N.: ; Modern Icelandic: ) was a Norwegian military commander (''hersir'') of the late ninth century who settled in Iceland around 900 CE. He appears in ...
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Ramsta in northern
Norway
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Ketils saga hœngs
:''The hero of this saga is often confused with his grandson by the same name.''
''Ketils saga hœngs'' or ''The Saga of Ketil Trout'' is an Icelandic legendary saga on the Norwegian chieftain Ketil Hallbjarnarson Haeng ( non, Ketill hœngr Hal ...
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Gríms saga loðinkinna
''Gríms saga loðinkinna'', or ''The Saga of Grim Shaggy-Cheek'' is one of the legendary sagas. It is from the 14th century and takes place in eighth-century Norway. It is one of the sagas called the ''Hrafnistumannasögur'' surrounding Ketill Hæ ...
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Örvar-Odds saga''
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Áns saga bogsveigis
''Áns saga bogsveigis'', the saga of Án the bow-bender, is one of the legendary sagas called the ''Hrafnistumannasögur'' surrounding the relatives of Ketil Trout. It concerns a feud between An the Bow-bender and Ingjald, king of Namdalen
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Ketil Trout, the protagonist of ''Ketils saga hœngs'', was the father of Grimr Hairy-Cheek, the protagonist of ''Gríms saga loðinkinna'', and the grandfather of Orvar-Odd, the protagonist of ''Örvar-Odds saga''.
In the opening lines of ''
Egil's saga'', which features extensive relations with the Ramsta family and Halogaland and thus may be called the nearest saga to the Hrafnista group, we are informed about Ketil Trout's father
Hallbjörn Half-troll, who was half
Saami
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Translations
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External links
The Four Sagas in Old Norse and English Translation
Legendary sagas
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