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Landnámabók

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Also known as Landnamabok, Landnáma

thumb|right|A page from a vellum manuscript of in the [[Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík, Iceland]]

Book · Open Library

Author
Finnur Jónsson
First published
2022
Editions
2

via Open Library

~4 min read

Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • {{lang|is|Landnáma}}
  • Versions
  • Historical accuracy
  • See also
  • Notes
  • External links

thumb|right|A page from a vellum manuscript of in the [[Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík, Iceland]]

(, , "Book of Settlements"), often shortened to ''', is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement () of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Landnámabók” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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