Flateyjarbók
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Flateyjarbók is an important medieval Icelandic manuscript. It is also known as GkS 1005 fol. and by the Latin name Codex Flateyensis. It was commissioned by the knight and lawspeaker, Jón Hákonarson,
Illustrated page of Flateyjarbók, containing the end of Eiríks saga víðförla and the start of Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar.
Harald Fairhair receives Norway out of his father Halfdan the Black's hands.
Christian Krohg Leiv Eirikson discovering America Google Art Project
Hyndluljóð
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Hyndluljóð is an Old Norse poem often considered a part of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved in its entirety only in Flateyjarbók, but some stanzas are also quoted in the Prose Edda, where they are sai
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…the additional material is placed within the royal sagas, sometimes interlaced. Additionally, the manuscript contains the only copy of the eddic poem Hyndluljóð, a unique set of annals from creation to 1394, and many short tales not otherwise preserved such as Nornagests þáttr ("the Story of Norna Gest…
"Freyja awakes Hyndla" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood.
"The Ancestry of Ottar" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood.