The Book of Settlements

Landnamabok

Translated by Herman Palsson & Paul Edwards
Categories: World History
Series: U of M Icelandic Series
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780887553707, 159 pages, January 2007
Paperback : 9780887556982, 159 pages, January 2007

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.