The sagas of Icelanders (, ), also known as family sagas, are one genre of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries, during the so-called Saga Age. They were written in Old Icelandic, a western dialect of Old Norse. They are the best-known specimens of Icelandic literature. They are focused on history, especially genealogical and family history. They reflect the struggle and conflict that arose within the societies of the early generations of Icelandic settlers. The Icelandic sagas are valuable and unique historical sources about medieval Scandinavian societies and kingdoms, in particular in regards to pre-Christian religion and culture and heroic age. Eventually many of these Icelandic sagas were recorded, mostly in the 13th and 14th centuries. The 'authors', or rather recorders of these sagas are largely unknown. One saga, Egil's Saga, is believed by some scholars to have been written by Snorri Sturluson, a descendant of the saga's hero, but this remains uncertain. The standard modern edition of Icelandic sagas is produced by Hið íslenzka fornritafélag ('The Old Icelandic Text Society'), or Íslenzk fornrit for short. Historical time frame Among the several literary reviews of the sagas is the Sagalitteraturen by Sigurður Nordal, which divides the sagas into five chronological groups (depending on when they were written not their subject matters) distinguished by the state of literary development: 1200 to 1230 – Sagas that deal with skalds (such as Fóstbrœðra saga) 1230 to 1280 – Family sagas (such as Laxdæla saga) 1280 to 1300 – Works that focus more on style and storytelling than just writing down history (such as Njáls saga) Early fourteenth century – Historical tradition Fourteenth century – Fiction List of sagas Atla saga Ótryggssonar Bandamanna saga Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa Droplaugarsona saga Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar – Egil's Saga Eiríks saga rauða – Saga of Erik the Red Eyrbyggja saga Færeyinga saga Finnboga saga ramma Fljótsdæla saga Flóamanna saga Fóstbræðra saga (two versions) Gísla saga Súrssonar, (two versions) of an outlaw poet – Gísla saga Grettis saga – Saga of Grettir the Strong Grænlendinga saga – Greenland saga Gull-Þóris saga Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu Hallfreðar saga (two versions) Harðar saga ok Hólmverja Hávarðar saga Ísfirðings – The saga of Hávarður of Ísafjörður Heiðarvíga saga Hrafnkels saga Hrana saga hrings (post-medieval) Hænsna-Þóris saga Íslendingabók (One