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    Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. Flateyjarbók consists of the following texts: Flateyjarbók is currently being translated into English by...
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    Isles and the Kingdom of the Isles in the west. The fourteenth-century Flateyjarbók features a Þáttr called Haralds þáttr hárfagra, literary "Harald Fairhair's...
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  • 1943, p. 101: citing Flateyjarbók: Óláfs Saga Helga, II, 5, pp. 6– Davidson 1943, p. 112 Davidson 1943, p. 139, citing Flateyjarbók: Óláfs Saga Helga, II...
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    manuscripts called Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason, Flateyjarbók and one registered as AM 62 fol. According to Flateyjarbók, Grímr Kamban settled in Faroe when Harald...
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    Lagertha coming to Ragnar's aid with flying hair is similar to how the Flateyjarbók describes Thorgerd and her sister Irpa assisting Haakon. Christen Pram's...
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    late fourteenth century account of the life of Saint Óláfr from the Flateyjarbók describes a pagan ritual which centered around a preserved horse's penis...
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    hair) took control of Orkney in 875. He is shown here inheriting his kingdom from his father Halfdan the Black, in an illustration from the Flateyjarbók....
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    happened around 1000 and is preserved only in the late 14th century Flateyjarbók manuscript. The Saga of the Greenlanders starts with Erik the Red, who...
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    and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders Flateyjarbók Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders...
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    and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders Flateyjarbók Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders...
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    and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders Flateyjarbók Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders...
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    of the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason in the medieval Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók. Norna-Gest is the son of a Danish man named Thord Thingbiter, who once...
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    14th-century Flateyjarbók image of Harald Fairhair (right, with fair hair), who took control of Hjaltland c. 875....
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    Thjóðhild's Church. A different version of Olaf Tryggvason's Saga, found in Flateyjarbók, makes no reference to Leif being blown off course and discovering Vinland...
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    later and extended version of the Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar found in the Flateyjarbók manuscript, a euhemerized account of the gods is provided. In the account...
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    to Encomium Emmae. Some hint of Cnut's childhood can be found in the Flateyjarbók, a 13th-century Icelandic source that says he was taught his soldiery...
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  • Finnish king, the son of Snær ("Snow"). Hversu Noregr byggðist in the Flateyjarbók states that the Kvens offered a yearly sacrifice to Þorri at mid-winter...
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    and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders Flateyjarbók Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders...
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    en mesta ("Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason") and is recorded in the Flateyjarbók, and in the early 15th-century Bergsbók. The account in this article...
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    and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders Flateyjarbók Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders...
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  • explained that Logi was really wildfire itself. In Hversu Noregr byggðist in Flateyjarbók, there is a mention of Logi's family: There was a man called Fornjót...
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    Thomas A. (January 2004). "A History Seen: The Uses of Illumination in 'Flateyjarbók'". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 103 (1): 33–35 (fig...
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    story of Hildisvíni appears in Hyndluljóð, an Old Norse poem found in Flateyjarbok but often considered a part of the Poetic Edda. In the poem, Freyja is...
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  • Heri is a male given name. In the Faroe Islands, Héri appears in the Flateyjarbók, a history written around 1380, in which Heri Sigmundsson is the youngest...
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    and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders Flateyjarbók Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders...
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    Teutonic gods were often considered demons or even the devil. In the Flateyjarbók, Odin is explicitly described as another form of the devil, whom the...
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    and Finnbogi Literature Saga of Erik the Red Saga of the Greenlanders Flateyjarbók Hauksbók Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum Book of Icelanders...
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    An illustration of Hákon Hákonarson, King of Norway, and Skúli Bárðarson from Flateyjarbók...
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  • Tryggvasonar en mesta (The Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason), found in the Flateyjarbók, Bergsbók, and other manuscripts. An account of Óláfr's life was written...
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  • Sorani ad 1268 "Genealogies of Norwegian kings" from Flateyjarbók Jómsvíkinga saga from Flateyjarbók Excerpta Catalogo Regum Sveciæ Bäckström, Gösta (1989)...
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