''Svarfdæla saga'' () 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 ...

. It was first recorded in the first half of the 14th century. It describes disputes which arise during the early settlement of

Svarfaðardalur Svarfaðardalur (, " Svörfuður's valley") is a large valley in central north Iceland. It is a part of the Dalvíkurbyggð municipality. The Svarfaðardalsá River flows down the valley, having its mouth near to the town of Dalvík Dalvík ( ...

, a valley in central north Iceland. The saga concerns three generations of a family originating in Norway. Thorstein Svarfað comes to Iceland from

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with his youngest son Karl. Most of the saga is about Karl and his relationship with Ljótólf, the local chieftain ''(

goði Gothi or (plural , fem. ; Old Norse: ) was a position of political and social prominence in the Icelandic Commonwealth. The term originally had a religious significance, referring to a pagan leader responsible for a religious structure and com ...

)'' .

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Proverbs in ''Svarfdæla saga''Full text at the Icelandic Saga Database
Sagas of Icelanders {{Iceland-saga-stub