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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
SPRING 1974
A HISTORY OF THE OLD ICELANDIC
COMMONWEALTH
University of Manitoba Icelandic Studies
General Editors: Haraldur Bessason and Robert J. Glendinning
Vol. I THE BOOK OF SETTLEMENTS
Landnamabdk
Translated with Introduction and Notes by
Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards
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Vol. II A HISTORY OF THE OLD ICELANDIC
COMMONWEALTH
by Jon Johannesson
Translated into English
by Haraldur Bessason
About Volume II and its Author
This work is the most comprehensive history of Medieval Iceland ever to
be presented in the English language. Its subject matter is grouped under the
following headings: Discovery and Settlement; Form of Government; Voyages
and Explorations; Church and Religion; The Death Throes of the Common-
wealth; Economic History and Material Culture. The book describes the period
from the Age of Settlements (870) to the end of the Commonwealth (1262).
The translation includes illustrations, maps, indices, and genealogical tables.
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