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Iceland

Every case set in what is now Iceland, best-known first. Cities, states and old kingdoms count under the country that holds them today.

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Cases in Iceland

Best-known first. Each card opens the full cited case.

Cases
3
Years
935 to 2008
Region
Europe
Main subjects
Medieval Europe, Secret heirs
Updated
30 October 2026
AI illustration: A small churchyard at Laugardælir, Iceland, in winter light, 20102008 · Reykjavík, IcelandIceland exhumed Bobby Fischer to test a girl's paternity claim, and the DNA said noBobby Fischer became world chess champion by beating Boris Spassky in Reykjavík in 1972. Wanted in the United States for playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia, he was given Icelandic citizenship in 2005.UPI and 4 moreHylestad I, right (cropped): The right portal plank from Hylestad stave church, the so called "Hylestad I".Legend · 1250 · Iceland (where the saga was written)The Völsunga saga says Fafnir killed his father for a cursed gold hoard and refused his brother any shareThe Völsunga saga is a 13th-century Icelandic prose saga based largely on the poems of the Elder Edda. In chapter 14 the smith Regin tells the hero Sigurd how his family's fortune was made and lost.morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu and 3 moreEirik Blodøks with Gunhild, Egil Skallagrimsson standing: Eric Bloodaxe sitting on his throne with Gunnhild Mother of Kings at his side. The man standing up is Egil Skallagrimsson.Legend · 935 · Gulathing (Gulen), Norway, and Mosfell, IcelandEgil's saga says a queen's men cut the court ropes to stop Egil's inheritance suit, and Egil later won the land by biting a man's throat outEgil's saga covers about 850 to 1000; its oldest manuscript fragment dates from about 1250, and many scholars attribute it to Snorri Sturluson.viking.ucla.edu and 6 more