ABSTRACT
Vatnsdoela saga, which was probably written after 1250, tells the history of the Vatnsdoelir, a powerful family in the north of Iceland. The debatability of Anthony Winterbourne’s statements aside, his concept of time as genealogical is very useful in analyzing the sagas of Icelanders. Gisla saga has often been regarded as being influenced by the concept of fate or an example of the concept of heroic fate. Hrafnkels saga, which was probably written around the turn of the twelfth century, has been interpreted in many different ways. The saga, which is among the shortest of the sagas of Icelanders, tells the story of the proud and powerful chieftain Hrafnkell, who kills his young shepherd Einar. Although many articles hold that the sagas of Icelanders are influenced by the concept of fate, only a very small portion of overall scholarship deals with fate in the sagas of Icelanders.
