| A.D. 850. | Birth of Harold fairhair. |
| 860. | Harold fairhair comes to the throne. |
| 870. | Harold fairhair sole King in Norway. |
| 871. | Ingolf sets out for Iceland. |
| 872. | Battle of Hafrsfirth (Hafrsfjöðr). |
| 874. | Ingolf and Leif go to settle in Iceland. |
| 877. | Kettle hæng goes to Iceland. |
| 880-884. | Harold fairhair roots out the Vikings in the west. |
| 888. | Fall of Thorstein the red in Scotland. |
| 890-900. | Rush of settlers from the British Isles to Iceland. |
| 892. | Aud the deeply wealthy comes to Iceland. |
| 900-920. | The third period of the Landnámstide. |
| 920. | Harold fairhair shares the kingdom with his sons. |
| 923. | Hrut Hauskuld's brother born. |
| 929. | Althing established. |
| 930. | Hrafn Kettle hæng's son Speaker of the Law. |
| 930-935. | Njal born. |
| 930. | The Fleetlithe feud begins. |
| 933. | Death of Harold fairhair. |
| 940. | End of the Fleetlithe feud; Fiddle Mord a man of rank; Hamond Gunnar's son marries Mord's sister Rannveiga. |
| 941. | Fall of King Eric Bloodaxe. |
| c. 945. | Gunnar of Lithend born. |
| 955-960. | Njal's sons born. |
| 959. | Glum marries Hallgerda. |
| 960. | Fall of King Hacon; Athelstane's foster-child, Harold Grayfell, King in Norway. |
| 963. | Hrut goes abroad. |
| 965. | Hrut returns to Iceland and marries Unna Mord's daughter. |
| 968. | Unna parts from Hrut. |
| 969. | Fiddle Mord and Hrut strive at the Althing; Fall of King Harold Grayfell; Earl Hacon rules in Norway. |
| 970-971. | Fiddle Mord's death; Gunnar and Hrut strive at the Althing. |
| 972. | Gunnar of Lithend goes abroad. |
| 974. | Gunnar returns to Iceland. |
| 974. | Gunnar's marriage with Hallgerda. |
| 975. | The slaying of Swart. |
| 976. | The slaying of Kol. |
| 977. | The slaying of Atli. |
| 978. | The slaying of Brynjolf the unruly and Thord Freedmanson. |
| 979. | The slaying of Sigmund the white. |
| 983. | Hallgerda steals from Otkell at Kirkby. |
| 984. | The suit for the theft settled at the Althing. |
| 985. | Otkell rides over Gunnar in the spring; fight at Rangriver just before the Althing; at the Althing Geir the priest and Gunnar strive; in the autumn Hauskuld Dale-Kolli's son, Gunnar's father-in-law, dies; birth of Hauskuld Thrain's son. |
| 986. | The fight at Knafahills, and death of Hjort Gunnar's brother. |
| 987. | The suit for those slain at Knafahills settled at the Althing. |
| 988. | Gunnar goes west to visit Olaf the peacock. |
| 989. | Slaying of Thorgeir Otkell's son before, and banishment of Gunnar at, the Althing; Njal's sons, Helgi and Grim, and Thrain Sigfus' son, go abroad. |
| 990. | Gunnar slain at Lithend. |
| 992. | Thrain returns to Iceland with Hrapp; Njal's sons ill-treated by Earl Hacon for his sake. |
| 994. | Njal's sons return to Iceland, bringing Kari with them. |
| 995. | Death of Earl Hacon; Olaf Tryggvi's son King of Norway. |
| 996. | Skarphedinn slays Thrain. |
| 997. | Thangbrand sent by King Olaf to preach Christianity in Iceland. |
| 998. | Slaying of Arnor of Forswaterwood by Flosi's brothers at Skaptarfells Thing; Thangbrand's missionary journey; Gizur and Hjallti go abroad. |
| 999. | Hjallti Skeggi's son found guilty of blasphemy against the Gods at the Althing; Thangbrand returns to Norway. |
| 1000. | Gizur and Hjallti return to Iceland; the Change of Faith and Christianity brought into the law at the Althing on St. John's day, 24th June; fall of King Olaf Tryggvi's son at Svoldr, 9th September. |
| 1001. | Thorgeir the priest of Lightwater gives up the Speakership of the Law. |
| 1002. | Grim of Mossfell Speaker of the Law. |
| 1003. | Grim lays down the Speakership. |
| 1003 or 1004. | Skapti Thorod's son Speaker of the Law; the Fifth Court established; Hauskuld Thrain's son marries Hildigunna Flosi's niece and has one of the new priesthoods at Whiteness. |
| 1006. | Duels abolished in legal matters; slaying of Hauskuld Njal's son by Lyting and his brothers. |
| 1009. | Amund the blind slays Lyting; Valgard the guileful comes back to Iceland; his evil counsel to Mord; Mord begins to backbite and slander Hauskuld and Njal's sons to one another. |
| 1111. | Hauskald the Whiteness priest slain early in the spring; suit for his manslaughter at the Althing; Njal's Burning the autumn after. |
| 1112. | The suit for the Burning and battle at the Althing; Flosi and the Burners banished; Kari and Thorgeir Craggeir carry on the feud. |
| 1113. | Flosi goes abroad with the Burners, and Kari follows them; Flosi and Kari in Orkney. |
| 1114. | Brian's battle on Good Friday; Flosi goes to Rome. |
| 1115. | Flosi returns from Rome to Norway, and stays with Earl Eric, Earl Hacon's son. |
| 1116. | Flosi returns to Iceland; Kari goes to Rome and returns to Caithness; his wife Helga dies out in Iceland. |
| 1117. | Kari returns to Iceland, id reconciled with Flosi, and marries Hildigunna Hauskuld's widow. |
