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    Íslendingabók (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈistlɛntiŋkaˌpouːk], Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈiːslɛndɪŋɡaˌboːk], Book of Icelanders; Latin: Libellus Islandorum)...
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  • Morgunblaðið, '20 þúsund hafa sótt um aðgang að Íslendingabók', January 20, 2003. DV, 'Íslendingabók: 100 þúsund notendur', February 13, 2003 Larissa...
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    claimed without conflict with existing inhabitants. On the basis of Íslendingabók by Ari Þorgilsson, and Landnámabók, histories dating from the twelfth...
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    addition to his shorter Íslendingabók; or early versions may have been based on the genealogies that Ari states he left out of Íslendingabók. The oldest surviving...
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    Þorgilsson. "Islendingabok". Heimskringla.no. Retrieved 18 February 2016. Heimskringla in English Guðni Jónsson's edition of Íslendingabók Íslendingabók in English...
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    allusiveness of the references. According to sources such as Ynglingatal and Íslendingabók, the Fairhair dynasty in Oppland, Norway was in fact a branch of the...
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    by the earliest Icelandic prose account of Harald, Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók. Dating from the early twelfth century, this was written over 250 years...
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    that he fell from his horse and died while he worshipped his god. In Íslendingabók from the early 12th century, Eadgils only appears as a name in the listing...
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    precedes Agne and Agne is succeeded by Yngvi. The even earlier source Íslendingabók cites the line of descent in Ynglingatal and it gives the same line...
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    Ynglingatal, older than Snorri's quotation: The even earlier source Íslendingabók cites the line of descent in Ynglingatal and also gives Vanlandi as...
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