• Húnaþing. "The Vatnsdæla saga (13th century)". astrofella.wordpress.com. Retrieved November 1, 2019. "Vatnsdæla saga". Icelandic Saga Database. Retrieved...
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    saga Valla-Ljóts saga Vatnsdæla saga Víga-Glúms saga Víglundar saga Vápnfirðinga saga Þorsteins saga hvíta Þorsteins saga Síðu-Hallssonar Þórðar saga...
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    Jökull Ingimundarson, son of Ingimundr Þorsteinsson who figure in the Vatnsdæla saga). Treasures are taken from the mound after Grettir's triumph, including...
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  • Húnabyggð municipality of Northwestern Region, Iceland. The Vatnsdæla saga, one of the sagas of Icelanders, chronicles the lives of the valley's original...
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    Harald Fairhair (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
    lead to Hallstein's exile in Iceland. In Vatnsdæla saga Harald's conquest of Norway is described. The saga's initial protagonist Ingimundr recognises...
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    Seiðr (section Sagas)
    framsýnir, menn forspáir). However, in chapter 44 of the Icelandic saga Vatnsdæla saga, Þórdís Spákona loans someone her black cloak and stick (stafsprotann)...
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  • the style and content of his love poems.Read aloud. "Vatnsdæla saga. Hallfreðar saga. Kormáks saga". National and University Library of Iceland. Retrieved...
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  • rare or even uniquely surviving case of the horse-fylgja occurs in Vatnsdæla saga. Here, the dreamer (Ingólfr Þorsteinsson) sees himself riding on a red...
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  • Raumr). A variant of this genealogy appears at the beginning of the Vatnsdæla saga in which Ketil the Large is the direct son of Orm Broken-shell with...
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  • following texts: Flóamanna saga Laxdæla saga Hænsna-Þóris saga Vatnsdæla saga Eyrbyggja saga Kjalnesinga saga Króka-Refs saga Stjörnu-Odda draumr Bergbúa...
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    Freyfaxi by throwing him off a cliff. The name "Freyfaxi" is also seen in Vatnsdæla saga, suggesting its dedication to Frey in a similar manner. Elsewhere in...
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    ulfheðinn), are mentioned in the Vatnsdæla saga, the Haraldskvæði and the Grettis saga and are consistently referred to in the sagas as a group of berserkers...
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  • were incorporated into Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta. Some parts are also thought to survive in Vatnsdæla saga. The saga of Óláfr Tryggvason in the early...
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    the chests of sleeping people, giving nightmares. According to the Vatnsdæla saga, Thorkel Silver (Þorkell Silfri) has a dream about riding a red horse...
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  • song appears from elsewhere in her mouth (Ǫrvar-Odds saga and Hrólfs saga kraka). In Hrólfs saga kraka, it is in the beginning of the trance that she...
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    runes, expressing the whole form of curse." - Egils Saga, Chapter LX (60) The Icelandic Vatnsdæla saga records that when Finbogi failed to show up for a...
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    Turville-Petre 1975, p. 255. Turville-Petre 1975, pp. 245–46. Kjalnesinga saga, Vatnsdæla saga; De Vries Volume 1, p. 410, Turville-Petre, p. 254. Davidson, "Human...
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  • request; and in another tale in Flateyjarbók and in Vatnsdæla saga, Svarfdæla saga and Finnboga saga, dead and dying men ask for their names to be passed...
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    Thor which he worshipped, and Ingimundur Þorsteinsson is said in the Vatnsdæla saga to have kept an item ("hlutr") with a silver engraving of Freyr. The...
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    Grettis saga, Hallfreðar saga, Heiðarvíga saga, Kormáks saga, and Vatnsdæla saga are all likely to have been produced here. In 1402, the Black Death...
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    exact meaning of the niðstöng, however, is difficult to ascertain. The Vatnsdæla saga also mentions a stake with a horse's head. These rites have not been...
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  • horses and Freyr is also seen in texts such as Hrafnkels saga, Vatnsdæla saga and Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar where horses are dedicated to the god; however...
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    fanciful Njal's Saga as well as the Saga of Gunnlaugr Serpent-Tongue, Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson's Saga, the Vatnsdæla Saga and in the tale of Helgi and Wolf...
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  • feud is also retold from the perspective of Jökull and his brothers in Vatnsdæla saga), but a resolution is eventually found that is satisfactory to both...
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    fanciful Njal's Saga as well as the Saga of Gunnlaugr Serpent-Tongue, Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson's Saga, the Vatnsdæla Saga and in the tale of "Helgi and Wolf"...
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  • volumes of the Íslenzk fornrit series: Laxdæla saga, Eyrbyggja saga andVatnsdæla saga in addition to Njáls saga, on which he had previously published a personal...
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