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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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  • 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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    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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  • Möre, Öland and Gotland belonged to the Swedes (hyrað to Sweon). The Flateyjarbók (late 14th century) has a different account about Eric Anundsson. It...
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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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    14th-century Flateyjarbók image of Harald Fairhair (right, with fair hair), who took control of Hjaltland c. 875....
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    King Harald receives Norway out of his father's hands in this illustration from the 14th-century Flateyjarbók....
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  • Thumbnail for Magnús Þórhallsson
    two scribes (the other being Jón Þórðarson) who wrote the manuscript Flateyjarbók for Jón Hákonarson. Magnús was responsible for the second part of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Freydís Eiríksdóttir
    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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    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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  • The Tale of Auðun of the West Fjords (category Flateyjarbók)
    harðráði Sigurðsson), as the saga is told in the manuscripts Morkinskinna, Flateyjarbók, and several others. Widely translated and anthologised, it is admired...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Olaf Tryggvason
    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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  • inhabitants of the Western Roman Empire. In the genealogy section of Flateyjarbók, there are two kings of Valland named Auði and Kjárr, who may have been...
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  • Thumbnail for Bjarni Herjólfsson
    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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