Droplaugarsona saga
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Droplaugarsona saga is one of the Icelanders' sagas
Icelanders' sagas
The Sagas of Icelanders —many of which are also known as family sagas—are prose histories mostly describing events that took place in Iceland in the 10th and early 11th centuries, during the so-called Saga Age. They are the best-known specimens of Icelandic literature.The Icelanders'...

, probably written in the early 15th century. It tells the story of Grímr and Helgi sons of Droplaug as grown men. These are a pair of brothers who also appear in Fljótsdæla saga
Fljótsdæla saga
Fljótsdæla saga is one of the Icelandic sagas. It is probably the last one written, perhaps from about 1500, probably by an author in the East Fjords, and is a sequel to Hrafnkels saga....

, and in fact some of the storyline of Droplaugarsona saga overlaps with that of Fljótsdæla saga, although details often differ when this is the case. This is not unusual in an Icelandic saga.

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