Everything about Ketil Flatnose totally explained
Ketil, nicknamed
Flatnose, was a
Norwegian hersir of the mid 800s, son of Bjorn (or Bjarni) Buna. His holdings were in the
northern part of the country. Some scholars have speculated that, based on his location, nickname and his father's non-
Norse cognomen, Ketil was at least partially
Sami in descent.
In the 850s Ketil was a prominent
viking chieftain. He conquered the
Hebrides and the
Isle of Man. Some sources refer to him as "King of the Sudreys" but there's little evidence that he himself claimed that title. The Norwegian king appointed him the ruler of these islands, but he failed to pay tribute to
Harald Fairhair and was outlawed. Most of his family eventually emigrated to
Iceland.
Ketil's wife was
Yngvild Ketilsdattir, daughter of
Ketil Wether, a hersir from
Ringarike. They had a number of children, including
Bjorn the Easterner,
Helgi Bjola;
Aud the Deep-Minded, and
Thorunn the Horned.
Ketil's daughter Aud married
Olaf the White, King of
Dublin. Their son,
Thorstein the Red, briefly conquered much of northern Scotland during the 870s and 880s before he was killed in battle. Aud and many members of her clan settled in the Laxdael region of
Iceland.
Ketil may have been the
Caittil Find, who appears in Irish sources, in 857, as a leader of a contingent of
Gall-Gaedhil.
In literature
Ketil is a character in such works as
Laxdaela saga,
Eyrbyggja saga, and
Eirik the Red's Saga. His genealogy is described in detail in the
Landnamabok.
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