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Laxdæla saga
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Icelandic:
“Saga of [the Men of] Laxárdal”
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Laxdæla saga

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Laxdæla saga, one of the Icelanders’ sagas. The tale, written about 1245 by an anonymous author (possibly a woman), is the tragic story of several generations of an Icelandic warrior family descended from Ketill Flatnose. One of the best English translations was rendered by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson in 1969. It is included with other sagas in the five-volume Complete Sagas of Icelanders (1997).