Private User a MP'ed profiles are not a source at all, and the information on a MP is not good information unless there are sources telling us where the information came from or the curator (or the user the curator does the MP'ing for) have written a way to contact them so he/she can tell what the sources are.
When it comes to the persons like Ketil Flatnose he lived in a period where there were only spoken stories about them, all written information about him is written at least 250 years later.
Ari Thorgilsson lived 1067-1148 and wrote among other things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dslendingab%C3%B3k and allthough english wikipedia in the article about Ketill Flatnose are calling the information for primary sources, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketill_Flatnose none of the articles mentioned in the wiki are primary sources since all of them are written several hundred years after the events happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxd%C3%A6la_saga is written between 1230 and 1260.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyrbyggja_saga is written in the 13th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Erik_the_Red is written in the 13th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landn%C3%A1mab%C3%B3k is written late 12th century.
The same is true about every saga written by a Nordic author and about the Nordic people living before around 1200. All the information they have about persons from that period, specially the genealogical information, is by the historians working this timeperiod thought of as untrustworthy. That is also why we don't have a trustworthy line back through the kings of Norway further than Sverre I, King of Norway using only Nordic sources. By using sources from the old Duchy of Saxony where the daughter of St. Olav was married, Princess of Norway Ulvhild Olavsdatter, Duchesse of Saxony, it is possible to a line back to St. Olavs father Harald Grenske but the stories about him is probably not true and is thought to have been invented by Snorre Sturlasson or one of the writers Snorre used as his source. That he was an underking in Viken is probably also wrong, if he was an underking it was probably in Grenland. And his ancestry is probably completely unknown, and is thought to have been invented by Snorre to get St. Olav a connection back to Harald I "Fairhair", king of Norway.
So when reading the sagas you need to have some knowledge about what was the authors aganda about writing the sagas. The historians have found that the earliest sagas are probably more correct than the later ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynglinga_saga is written by Snorre and it's agenda is to connect the kings in Norway, Sweden and Denmark back Odin. It's main source is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynglingatal a poem written sometime between the 9th and the 12th century, noone knows for sure. Snorre embroidered the poem and wrote a saga based on the stories and persons in the poem. Snorre uses the version of the poem written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ej%C3%B3%C3%B0%C3%B3lfr_of_Hvinir but have added information from writings of several wise men and he added is own tales and fabrications. Therefore, the persons may have existed, the stories about them and the events around them could be correct, most probably they are just good fabricated stories. And the genelogical information in these sagas are not to be seen as correct unless collaborated by another source written outside the Nordic countries. Therefore the viking and medieval historians in the Nordic countries have come to the conclusion that they are good stories, but not trustworthy as historical or genealogical information.
Take for instance the story about Olav I Tryggvason, King of Norway being raised in Russia. According to Snorre he came to Russia in 972 and Snorre writes much about the rulers in Holmgard (Veliky Novgorod) at the time. But compared to the russian sources about the same rulers it is shown that Snorre has missed bigtime and stating that Olav Tryggvason became a fosterchild of Valdemar (Vladimir) and his wife Allogia, bur the russian sources states that in 972 Vladimir was only 14 years of age, not married at all. Later Vladimir married several times, but never to a woman named Allogia or even close to that name. Snorre writes that Olav stayed with Vladimir and Allogia until he was 18 years old (born 963), and that it was piece and tranquility in Holmgard during this time. But the facts are that this timeperiod it was one of the most violent periods in the Rus kingdom's history. The historians have found out that Allogia probably is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev and infact is Vladimirs grandmother, and she didn't live in Holmgard, but in Kiev. The saga writers probably chose Vladimir and Olga as Olavs fosterparents in Russia due to they both became saints and at the time the sagas were written (around 1190) the icelandic sagawriters fought hard to get St. Olav to become a saint. The russian historians have also founf out that after Olav left Russiam he supposedly went to Vendland and met king Burisleiv and married his daughter Geira. But no Burisleiv with a daughter geira have existed in Vendland. So according to sources outside of the Nordic coutries, Snorre is untrustworthy when it comes to Olav Tryggvason childhood in Rus kingdom and in marrying a woman from Vendland. In fact, some historians think that Olav Tryggvason never was in Russia at all and that this part of the saga is a fabrication by Snorre et co.
So, yes, the sagas are good and interesting stories, but read them as such, as stories, not facts. The genealogies in them are not true, and many of the events are not true also. Keep this in mind.
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