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The Book of Settlements: Landnamabok (Paperback, 2007)

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Product Description : Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement

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The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.