Reykdæla saga ok Víga-Skútu or Reykdæla saga og Víga-Skútu () is one of the
sagas of Icelanders
The sagas of Icelanders ( is, Íslendingasögur, ), also known as family sagas, are one genre of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early el ...
. The story takes place in the valley of Reykjadalur in northern Iceland in the second half of the 9th century. The saga consists of two parts. The first part principally features Áskel, father of Viga-Skuta; the second part is about Víga-Skúta and his quarrels with his father-in-law Glúmr Eyjólfsson (''Víga-Glúm'') after Víga-Skúta marries his daughter and then deserts her.
See also
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Víga-Glúms saga
''Víga-Glúms saga'' () is one of the Sagas of Icelanders. It takes place mostly in and around Eyjafjörður in North Iceland, and recounts the life and fall of Glúmr Eyjólfsson, a powerful man whose nickname, ''Víga'', refers to his propensit ...
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References
Related reading
*Jónas Kristjánsson (1997) ''Eddas and Sagas: Iceland's Medieval Literature'' (Reykjavik: Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag. Peter Foote, trans)
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Jesse Byock
Jesse L. Byock (born 1945) is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. An archaeologist and special ...
(1993) ''Feud in the Icelandic Saga'' (University of California Press)
External links
Proverbs in ''Reykdoela saga (ok Víga-Skutu)''Full text at the Icelandic Saga Database
Sagas of Icelanders
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