CHAPTER I
Of Ketill Flatnose and his Descendants,
9th Century A.D.
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Ketill Flatnose was the name of a man. He was the son
of Bjorn the Ungartered. Ketill was a mighty and high-born
chieftain (hersir) in Norway. He abode in Raumsdale, within the
folkland of the Raumsdale people, which lies between Southmere and
Northmere. Ketill Flatnose had for wife Yngvild, daughter of Ketill
Wether, who was a man of exceeding great worth. They had five
children; one was named Bjorn the Eastman, and another Helgi
Bjolan. Thorunn the Horned was the name of one of Ketill's
daughters, who was the wife of Helgi the Lean, son of Eyvind
Eastman, and Rafarta, daughter of Kjarval, the Irish king. Unn "the
Deepminded" was another of Ketill's daughters, and was the wife of
Olaf the White, son of Ingjald, who was son of Frodi the Valiant,
who was slain by the Svertlings. Jorunn, "Men's Wit- breaker," was
the name of yet another of Ketill's daughters. She was the mother
of Ketill the Finn, who settled on land at Kirkby. His son was
Asbjorn, father of Thorstein, father of Surt, the father of Sighvat
the Speaker-at-Law.
