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Ketill is a character in such works as the Laxdaela saga, Eyrbyggja saga, and Eirik the Red's Saga and his genealogy is described in detail in the Landnámabók.
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Ketill is also sometimes equated with Caittil Find, a reported leader of the Gallgáedil fighting in Ireland in 857, although this connection is far from definite.
Ketill left no successors and there is little record of the succeeding four decades.
The Hebrides had been difficult to control from a distance since the days of Ketill Flatnose, and even in the time of Magnus Barelegs it is likely that de facto control was that of local rulers rather than nominal governance from over the seas.
He inherited Raumsdal ( modern: Romsdal ) from his father, and was again the father of King Raum, who is the father of Hrossbjörn, who is the father of Orm Broken-shell, who is the father of Knatti, who had two sons: Thórolf and Ketill Raum ( in one version, Thórolf and Ketill Raum are sons of Orm ).
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This story is retold in the Eyrbyggja saga but here it is Ketill rather than Harald who led the expedition, and after the initial victory the former retained the islands as " personal domain " rather than bringing them under Harald's rule.
In the Laxdaela saga the same story is told, but here Ketill is one of the vikings who have fled to the Isles to escape Harald's tyranny.
Some sources refer to Ketill as " King of the Sudreys " although there is little evidence that he himself claimed that title.
Ketill Flatnose is also sometimes equated with Caittil Find a reported leader of the Gallgáedil recorded in the Annals of Ulster as fighting in Ireland in 857.
* Ketill was a common Norse name during this period and there is no certainty that " Ketill " and " Caittil " can be equated.
* There is nothing in the saga sources to indicate either that Ketill was active in Ireland or of a connection between the Gallgáedil and the Scottish islands in the Irish sources.
* Ketill is described in the sagas as the father-in-law of Olaf the White, a figure some historians believe to be identical with Amlaíb, yet here Caittil is clearly the enemy of Amlaíb.
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Ketill and character
* Ari Þorgilsson was a direct descendent of Ketill, who was born not long after the death of his great grandmother Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, a prominent character in the Laxdæla saga and whose husband, Thorkell Eyjolffsson, was descended from Auðr.
Ketill and Laxdaela
The Laxdaela Saga claims that Raumsdal was the home of Ketill Flatnose, a descendent of Ketill Raum.
Ketill and saga
* Ketill Gautreksson, in Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar.
If Gautreks saga tells that Gautrekr had the daughter Helga, Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar adds two sons, Ketill and Hrólfr Gautreksson.
Ketill and .
The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 July 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.
In the Western Isles Ketill Flatnose may have been the dominant figure of the mid 9th century, by which time he had amassed a substantial island realm and made a variety of alliances with other Norse leaders.
Ketill Flatnose was a Norwegian hersir of the 9th century.
Þráinn's brother, Ketill, has married Njáll's daughter, and between them they bring about a settlement.
Harald then sent Ketill Flatnose to subdue them, which he did quickly, but then he declared himself an independent " King of the Isles ", a title he retained for the rest of his life.
Agnar was father of Ketil Thrym ( Ketill Þrymr ) who had land at Thrumu in Agdir.
The last pair, found incubating an egg, were killed there in July 1844, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.
Aud was the second daughter of Ketill Flatnose, a Norwegian hersir, and Yngvid Ketilsdóttir, daughter of Ketill Wether, a hersir from Ringarike.
: Haursi ok Ketill reistu eptir Þegn, fôður sinn, steina þessa, at bónda góðan á Funnum / Fúnum.
: Haursi and Ketill raised these stones in memory of Þegn, their father ; in memory of the good husbandman of Funnir / Fúnir.
He had two sons Ketill and Hrólfr Gautreksson, and Ketill became a great Viking who inherited his father's kingdom.
Ketill suggested that Hrólfr make a try to woo the princess and after much hesitation, Hrólfr agreed.
After some time Hrólfr succeeded his brother Ketill as the king of the Geats, but nobody wrote down that story.
Ketill Bjǫrnsson, nicknamed Flatnose ( Old Norse: Flatnefr ), was a Norwegian hersir of the 9th century.
The story of Ketill and his daughter Auðr ( or Aud ) was probably first recorded by the Icelander Ari Þorgilsson who lived from 1067 to 1148.
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