The ''Hrafnistumannasögur'' is a group of
legendary saga
A legendary saga or ''fornaldarsaga'' (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before the settlement of Iceland.The article ''Fornaldarsagor'' in ''Nationalencyklopedin'' (1991 ...
s surrounding the family of Ketil Trout of Halogaland. (Ketil is sometimes confused with his grandson,
Ketil Trout of Namdalen.) The group is named after Hrafnista, modern
Ramsta in northern
Norway
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Ketils saga hœngs''
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Gríms saga loðinkinna''
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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
''Egill's Saga'' or ''Egil's saga'' ( ; ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald. The saga spans the years c. 850–1000 a ...
'', 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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