:''The hero of this saga is often confused with his grandson
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''Ketils saga hœngs'' or ''The Saga of Ketil Trout'' is an
Icelandic legendary saga
A legendary saga or ''fornaldarsaga'' (literally, "story/history of the ancient era") is a Norse saga that, unlike the Icelanders' sagas, takes place before the settlement of Iceland.The article ''Fornaldarsagor'' in ''Nationalencyklopedin'' (1991 ...
on the Norwegian chieftain Ketil Hallbjarnarson Haeng
[ ( non, Ketill hœngr Hallbjarnarson), also known as "Ketil Trout of Hrafnista".][ Hrafnista is present-day Ramsta, Hålogaland, Northern Norway.
The work belongs in a group of sagas collectively called the '' Hrafnistumannasögur'' surrounding Ketil Trout and his relatives.
Ketil grows up to become a rascal and an Askeladd, but matures and becomes a formidable champion. He slays a dragon and goes through a number of fights, mostly to defend his daughter. In a fight with Dusti, the king of the ]Sami
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s, he slays the king and takes his sword and three magic arrowheads of flintstone (Hremsa, Fifa and Flaug).
Together with the giantess Hrafnhild, Ketil has the son Grim Shaggy-Cheek, who was the father of Orvar-Odd.
Ketil is traditionally regarded as the father of Hrafnhilda, who married Thorkel of Namdalen Thorkel of Namdalen was a Norwegian jarl in Namdalen who lived in the mid to late ninth century CE. Thorkel married Hrafnhilda, the daughter of Ketil Trout of Hrafnista. Their son, named Ketil Trout after his grandfather, was to become one of the ...
and bore him a son, the Iceland
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ic chieftain Ketil Thorkelsson
Ketil Thorkelsson (Old Norse: ), better known by his nickname Ketil Trout or Ketil Salmon (O.N.: ; Modern Icelandic: ) was a Norwegian military commander ('' hersir'') of the late ninth century who settled in Iceland around 900 CE. He appears i ...
. This grandson also went by the name "Ketil Trout".[
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The saga in English translation by Gavin Chappell with Facing Old Norse Text.The saga in Old Norse
Legendary sagas
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