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The first family of Iceland | HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS

The first family of Iceland

In 874 Viking longships are beached on a promontory in the southwest of Iceland, where Reykjavik now stands. They have brought from the coast of Norway a chieftain, Ingólfur Arnarson, together with his family, dep...

Eddas and Sagas | NORSE MYTHOLOGY

Eddas and Sagas

Iceland provides the fullest surviving record of Germanic mythology, legend and history. The earliest examples are found in a manuscript written in the 13th century, known as the Elder Edda (or sometimes Poetic...

Eddas and Sagas | HISTORY OF LITERATURE

Eddas and Sagas

Iceland provides the fullest surviving record of Germanic mythology, legend and history. The earliest examples are found in a manuscript written in the 13th century, known as the Elder Edda (or sometimes Poetic...

Eddas and Sagas | HISTORY OF THE GERMANIC PEOPLES

Eddas and Sagas

Iceland provides the fullest surviving record of Germanic mythology, legend and history. The earliest examples are found in a manuscript written in the 13th century, known as the Elder Edda (or sometimes Poetic...

Ireland is the first European region | HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATION OF PLANTS

Irish potatoes

Ireland is the first European region where the potato is grown as a food crop, rather than a delicacy or even aphrodisiac (the plant's two main uses after being brought from America to Spain, and then dispersed among Eur...

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