VÃÂglundar saga () is one of the sagas of Icelanders. VÃÂglundar saga utilizes the style and romance that also characterize the chivalric sagas. It is one of the latest of the Icelandic family sagas, dating to the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. The saga is preserved in two leather manuscripts from the 15th century.
The saga tells the story of the love between VÃÂglundr and KetilrÃÂðr, who are attached to each other from childhood. The opera Thorgrim (1890) is based on this saga.
In Norway, ÃÂorgrÃÂmr EirÃÂksson and the beautiful Olof ÃÂórisdóttir fall in love, but Olof's father arranges for her to be betrothed to a wealthy man named Ketill instead. ÃÂorgrÃÂmr and Olof therefore elope and flee to Iceland, where they settle down and have two sons, VÃÂglundr and Trausti, and a daughter, Helga.
As an adult, VÃÂglundr ÃÂorgrÃÂmsson begins courting KetilrÃÂðr Hólmkelsdóttir, the daughter of his father's neighbour and friend Hólmkell. This upsets her mother ÃÂorbjërg and brothers Einarr and Jëkull, who begin plotting against VÃÂglundr. Meanwhile, in Norway, Ketill has married and has three children â two sons (Sigurðr and Gunnlaugr) and a daughter (Ingibjërg). However, he is still obsessed with getting revenge against ÃÂorgrÃÂmr, and offers to marry Ingibjërg off to an adventurer named Hákon if the latter will go to Iceland and kill ÃÂorgrÃÂmr.
Hákon duly travels to Iceland and takes up lodging with Hólmkell, finding willing allies in the form of his host's sons Einarr & Jëkull. The trio ambush VÃÂglundr and Trausti in a field of haystacks. The attackers are all killed, but both VÃÂglundr and Trausti are wounded, and to make matters worse the brothers are also outlawed for the killings.
Ketill sends his sons, Sigurðr and Gunnlaugr, to Iceland to kill ÃÂorgrÃÂmr. Travelling incognito, the brothers are taken in by their unsuspecting target, but he is so kind to them that they decide not to go through with their mission. Instead, they help VÃÂglundr and Trausti escape to Norway, and even persuade their father to drop his vendetta against ÃÂorgrÃÂmr. The sentences of outlawry against VÃÂglundr and Trausti are eventually lifted, and (unusually for an ÃÂslendingasaga) the saga has a happy ending, concluding with a quadruple wedding of VÃÂglundr ÃÂorgrÃÂmsson to Ketilriðr Hólmkelsdóttir, Trausti ÃÂorgrÃÂmsson to Ingibjërg Ketilsdóttir, Sigurðr Ketilsson to Helga ÃÂorgrÃÂmsdóttir, and Gunnlaugr Ketilsson to VÃÂglundr's cousin Ragnhildr Helgadóttir.