Origines islandicae
Subtitle: a collection of the more important sagas and other native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland
By: ed. and tr. by Gudbrand Vigfusson and F. York Powel
Contributors: Powell, F. York
Publisher: At the Clarendon Press
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; ice
Subjects: ture. 0 Sagas. 0 Icela; America -- Sources. 0 -- Discovery an
Genres: Sources. 0
Table of contents: title: vol. I. book 1. Settlement and settlers. Landnama-book, or The Book of settlements. Early genealogies from sagas. The Thorsness settlement. Mantissa: The tale of Garmund Hell-skin.; title: book 2. The old constitution. Libellus Islandorum. Primitive laws and customs. Early constitutional law. Nial and the Fifth court.; title: book 3. Conversion and the early church of Iceland. Cristne saga: The tale of Thorwald the Far-farer. Early church legends (Swade and the poor; Thorhall Knop; the tale of Thidrande) The lives of the first seven bishops of Scalholt: Hungrvaca, ℗Þorl©Øaks saga, P©Øols saga. S. John of Holar's Life (Ioans saga). Second life of Thoriac (Oddaverja-℗þ©Øattr). Fragments from Gunlaug's Life; title: eenlanders.0