Kjalnesinga saga

{{Short description|13th-century Icelandic saga}}

Kjalnesinga saga ({{IPA|is|ˈcʰalˌnɛːsiŋka ˈsaːɣa|-|Is-Kjalnesinga saga.oga}}, {{lit|saga of the people of Kjalarnes}}{{efn|Kjalnesinga is the adjective and demonym of Kjalarnes.}}) is one of the sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur). It is preserved in a parchment manuscript [https://handrit.is/en/manuscript/view/is/AM04-0471 AM 471 4to].{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/vikingageearlyhi01duch/|title=The Viking Age|last=Du Chaillu|first=Paul B.|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|year=1889|volume=1|location=New York|pages=xvii|via=Internet Archive}}{{cite web|url= https://mms.is/namsefni/kjalnesinga-saga |title = Kjalnesinga saga |website= mms.is |access-date=December 1, 2019}}

The work concerns historical ages from the ninth to eleventh centuries, and was composed in the fourteenth century, among the last group of sagas composed.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/njalssaga00lars|title=Njáls Saga|last=Lönnroth|first=Lars|publisher=University of California Press|year=1976|isbn=0-520-02708-6|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/njalssaga00lars/page/209 209]|url-access=registration|via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/religionofancien00craiiala|title=The Religious of Ancient Scandinavia|last=Craigie|first=W. A.|publisher=Constable & Company, Ltd.|year=1914|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/religionofancien00craiiala/page/42 42]|quote=In the late and fictitious Kjalnesinga Saga there is given a similar description of a temple, which may possibly have some basis in local tradition.|via=Internet Archive}} The saga is about Búi Andríðsson, his wife Fríðr and his son Jökull Búason. The story takes place in Iceland and Norway. Búi becomes a chieftain of Iceland but dies in a quarrel with his son Jökul. The tale continues with the adventures of Jökul in the short story (þáttr) Jökuls þáttr Búasonar.{{cite web|url= https://vefir.mms.is/flettibaekur/namsefni/kjalnesinga/|title = Kjalnesinga saga |website= vefir.mms.is|access-date=December 1, 2019}}{{cite web|url= http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/J%C3%B6kuls_%C3%BE%C3%A1ttr_B%C3%BAasonar

|title = Jökuls þáttr Búasonar|website= heimskringla.no |author= Guðni Jónsson |access-date=December 1, 2019}}