Laxdæla Saga: The Story of Auð

The Old Icelandic epic tale of Queen Auð's escape from Scotland and settlement of the Dale-lands of western Iceland, as excerpted from Laxdæla Saga.
English Narration & Music Score Composed by Brent Landon
A Production of Aldasaga.com

[@siglercovemanager5518]

UUD (Aud) is my 35th great Grandmother!

[@JEWELISA1977]

Amazing this is my 33rd Great Grandmother

[@matthewpettipas8233]

She's my ancestress too, that makes us distant cousins!

[@ericpeterson7512]

I really like this. The music is beautiful, and the story is timeless and haunting. The person who narrated also wrote the music, so it's to be understood that it's mixed a bit loud in a couple parts. Great visuals, excellent music, haunting tale. Win!

[@theroyalqueenmab]

Queen Auðr, the Deep-Minded, Founder of Iceland Ketilsdóttir is my 37th great grandmother. I cried when I learned this. Everyone should do their ancestry.

[@raymondfair7822]

All the names are incredibly badass

[@siamesetrickster3255]

Lovely! So good to see places and pictures that bring the saga to life. I agree that the background music is too loud, though.

[@philosophy4242]

Thank you

[@Austrian_blood]

Wonderfully done!

[@captainandthelady]

It might be me but I think the music is too loud.

[@rgg7260]

i love that book, i didn't want it to end, so i put it aside for when i go down to where the sunsets...an acquaintance wanted to borrow the book but i would not...

[@robbid8144]

Difficult to understand the narrator....music is loud. The illustrations and artwork of the saga is special. So that would be my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandmother?

[@davefritz9452]

Robbi D if this is true we need to talk because we are distant relatives and I can fill you in on alot of the family tree my mother has chased our genealogy back to 700 ad

[@magnusg.bjornsson6641]

You are related to every living Icelander.

[@emilythequeen1]

Robbi D mine too!!! She’s a direct ancestor a long while back

[@deckiedeckie]

Why do they play the music so loud while the read the story?....Can barely made what they say

[@ejllamobeolan5025]

And my great Aunt. Helgi Bolan her brother. My how many great Grandfather.

[@rossleasure5604]

I'm sharing this with my students, but according to my translation, this concerns Unn the Deep-minded. There's only one Auð in Laxdaela Saga, and she doesn't appear until chapter 32. I can't explain the discrepancy.

[@chrisshorter9440]

Agreed. There is a discrepancy between this rendition and the original saga text.

[@robeh2505]

Unn The Deep minded is my 30 x grandmother. We can track our lineage to King Harald Wartooth, who was the grandfather x 3 of King Kettil Flatnose, Unn the Deep Minded's father. Also connected to Ragnar and Ivar the boneless. So if the queen of England carries Ivars bloodline, i guess i'm kind of distantly related to the queen of England.

[@jetziiophelia9757]

That makes us related.(= lol

[@robeh2505]

@@jetziiophelia9757 Cool, read the Laxdaela Saga. When i read that, didn't know i was descended from them yet. My uncle used Icelandic Roots to get our list of grandfathers.

[@jetziiophelia9757]

@@robeh2505 Thats rad.! (= My family is from Iceland.

[@acejohnsson]

formóðir mín í 31. lið Auður Djúpúðga Ketilsdóttir

[@magnuschristianssen8999]

A lovely tale! I wonder why the Irish and Scots never put their histories to writing like the Norse did. Very odd indeed. Am I missing something?

[@markanthony1485]

Writing degenerates the memory. And oral story telling is far more rooted than written, the emotion and subtleties of oral telling I find far better and writing as no real competition .

[@acejohnsson]

Forfaðir minn í 34. lið er Sigurðr Ormr í auga og þá Ragnar Loðbrók í 35. ef hann var þá til.

[@turinhorse]

music too loud but thanks

[@CraftSized]

The Story of Auður*

[@oisinolochlainn4437]

iontach ar fad