Fornaldarsögur (legendary sagas or mythic-heroic sagas) are a type of saga, mainly written in Iceland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that are generally set in northern Europe in times predating the ninth-century settlement of Iceland. Typical for the genre are traditional heroic themes and fantastic or fabulous elements. Some fornaldarsögur have analogues in other Germanic languages and can be regarded as mythical prehistory. The genre overlaps with the Old Norse term lygisögur (‘lying sagas’), although some fornaldarsögur may have a historical core. Notable sagas in this genre include Völsunga saga (‘The Saga of the Volsungs’), Nornagests þáttr (‘The Tale of Nornagestr’), Hrólfs saga kraka (‘The Saga of Hrólfr Kraki’), the Hrafnistumannasögur (‘Sagas of the People of Hrafnista’) (including Örvar-Odds saga ‘The Saga of Arrow-Oddr’), and Yngvars saga víðförla (‘The Saga of Yngvarr the Widely Travelled’).