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    Laxdæla saga (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlaksˌtaiːla ˈsaːɣa] ), also Laxdœla saga (Old Norse pronunciation [ˈlɑksˌdøːlɑ ˈsɑɣɑ]) or The Saga of the People...
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    Kjalnesinga saga Kormáks saga Króka-Refs saga Laxdæla saga Ljósvetninga saga (two versions) Njáls saga Reykdæla saga ok Víga-Skútu Skáld-Helga saga (known...
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  • In the Laxdæla saga, Vigdis is first introduced in the eleventh story. She is introduced as "Thord's wife" and by her ancestry on both sides. This initial...
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  • an ox". The close similarity of these descriptions have been noted. Laxdæla saga describes how bones were dug up belonging to a dead sorceress who had...
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  • relatives. Ketill was also depicted in such works as the Laxdæla saga, Eyrbyggja saga and the Saga of Erik the Red, while his genealogy was described in...
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    Snæfellsnes peninsula. The Saga is usually not regarded as artistically equal to Egil's saga, Njáls saga and Laxdæla saga. Nevertheless, it is valued...
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    Guðrúnarlaug (category Sagas of Icelanders)
    Ósvífrsdóttir, who is a main character in Laxdæla saga. The thermal bath exists at the place described in the saga. In Laxdæla saga Guðrúnarlaug (literally "Guðrún's...
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  • (2013). Landnámabók (Sturlubók), ch. 11, 36. Laxdæla saga, ch. 1. Landnámabók (Sturlubók), ch. 36. Laxdæla saga, ch. 4–6. Landnámabók (Sturlubók), ch. 38...
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    Bolli Bollason (category Sagas of Icelanders)
    Bolli Bollison) was a key historical character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdæla saga, born around 1000. He grew up in Orlygsstadir, at Helgafell on the Snæfellsnes...
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    the Laxdæla Saga in which he takes a leading role, Olaf also is mentioned in Egils saga, Njáls saga, Gunnlaugs saga, Kormáks saga, Grettirs saga and the...
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    with fictional and mythical elements in Eyrbyggja saga. Helgafell also appears in the Laxdæla saga as the location where the heroine Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir...
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    comes from the latinization of the name of the character Jorunn from the Laxdæla saga. Jorunna species are usually camouflaged to match the sponges they feed...
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    The saga is now believed to have been composed in the period from 1270 to 1290. Among written sources which the author likely used are Laxdæla saga, Eyrbyggja...
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  • Modern Icelandic: [ˈmɛlˌkʰɔr̥ka]) is the name given in Landnámabók and Laxdæla saga for the Irish mother of the Icelandic goði Ólafr Höskuldsson. It is possible...
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    Laxdælir [is], a group of Icelanders whose doings are described in the Laxdæla saga. Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi (2010). Wasteland with Words: A Social History...
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    Egil's saga, make the strongest claim of any Icelandic saga for literary greatness: Njál's saga and the Laxdæla saga. The Laxdæla saga or Saga of the...
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    Egill's Saga or Egil's saga (Old Norse: Egils saga [ˈeɣels ˈsɑɣɑ]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈeijɪls ˈsaːɣa] ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the...
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  • life of Olaf the Peacock, an Icelandic chieftain and major character of Laxdæla saga. Bjorn (ビョルン, Byorun) Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese); Andrew Love...
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  • Thorgerd Egilsdottir also makes an appearance in The Saga of the People of Laxardal (Laxdæla saga). In Chapter 23 her betrothal to Olaf the Peacock is...
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  • North America.: 101  Some well-known examples include Njáls saga, Laxdæla saga and Grettis saga. The material of the short tales of Icelanders (þættir or...
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  • of Laxdæla saga). Lines from Thord Gellir — Eyjolf the Gray Thordarson — Thorkel Eyjolfsson (4th husband of Gudrun Osvifsdottir late in Laxdæla saga) —...
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    English translator who published the first translations of Laxdæla saga and Færeyinga saga into English. She was born in London on 22 February 1867, the...
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    retrieved 7 July 2007. Sagas of the Icelanders Archived 16 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Penguin Group "OMACL: The Laxdaela Saga: Chapter 73". mcllibrary...
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    performance art piece Volcano Saga by Joan Jonas in 1989. The 28-minute video art piece is based on a 13th-century Icelandic Laxdæla Saga, and it tells a mythological...
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  • famous medieval Icelandic saga Laxdæla saga; in the assessment of Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson, 'the love triangle of Laxdæla saga is here dragged screaming...
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  • 2000, Index of Characters, pp. 759–782, to distinguish from a man in Laxdæla saga This daughter Steinunn, as well as Haukr's mostly patrilineal line is...
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  • Icelandic skald who lived in the last part of the tenth century. The Laxdæla saga tells how he composed his Húsdrápa for a wedding. Geirmundr married Þuríðr...
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  • such works as Laxdæla saga, Eyrbyggja saga, and Eirik the Red's Saga. His genealogy is described in detail in the Landnámabók. Laxdæla saga Encyclopedia...
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    write articles accepted by an Icelandic newspaper and translate the Laxdæla saga into English. Thorstein Veblen laid the foundation for the perspective...
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    they would then have enough to buy a sword. One sword mentioned in the Laxdæla saga was valued at half a crown, which would correspond to the value of 16...
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