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Njáll Þorgeirsson

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Njáll Þorgeirsson (Njáll son of Þorgeir, the name Njáll is a Norse derivative of the Irish name Niall.) was a 10th-century Icelandic lawyer who lived at Bergþórshvoll and is one of the main protagonists of Njáls saga, a medieval Icelandic saga. [1]

8 relations: Bergþórshvoll, Gunnar Hámundarson, Hlíðarendi, Iceland, Icelandic name, Landnámabók, Njáls saga, Sagas of Icelanders.

Bergþórshvoll

Bergþórshvoll (usually Anglicized as Bergthorsknoll) is an important setting in the Icelandic saga Njál's saga, the home and scene of the final burning of Njáll Þorgeirsson and his entire family.

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Gunnar Hámundarson

Gunnar Hámundarson was a 10th century Icelandic chieftain.

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Hlíðarendi

Hlíðarendi is a famous place in Icelandic historical literature.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Icelandic name

Icelandic names differ from most current Western family name systems by being patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage.

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Landnámabók

Landnámabók (“Book of Settlements”), often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (''landnám'') of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.

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Njáls saga

Njáls saga (modern Icelandic pronunciation) (also Njála, Brennu-Njáls saga or "The Story of Burnt Njáll") is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.

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Sagas of Icelanders

The Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries, during the so-called Saga Age.

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Njal, Njal Thorgeirsson, Njall THorgeirsson, Njall Thorgeirsson.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njáll_Þorgeirsson

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