Icelandic annals are chronological manuscript records of events mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in and around Iceland, though some,...

Biarmones). But what tribes dwell behind them, have we no certainty. The Icelandic Annals have a late mention of Kvens clearly active in the North. Around 1271...

established after 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. The settlers, known as Grænlendingar ('Greenlanders' in Icelandic), were the first Europeans to explore...

Governors' Annals) is among the most well-known of the medieval Icelandic annals and is preserved in the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in...

Konungsannáll (from Old Norse, King's Annals, or Latin Annales Islandorum regii), also known as Þingeyraannáll, is a medieval Icelandic manuscript written around...

from svalr ('cold') and barð ('edge', 'ridge', 'turf', 'beard'). The Icelandic Annals record that Svalbarði was discovered in 1194, while the Landnámabók...

According to Icelandic annals, he drowned in a shipwreck at Lyngholmen in Bømlafjorden on 1 December 1374. He had retained his sovereignty over Iceland until...

Icelanders (Icelandic: Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland. They speak Icelandic, a North Germanic...

Oddaverjaannáll (from Old Norse, Oddaverjar's Annals) is a medieval Icelandic manuscript written around the 16th century. Apart from the chronology of...

in modern Icelandic, Grønland in modern Danish and Norwegian). Both the Book of Icelanders (Íslendingabók, a medieval account of Icelandic history from...

that he went in search of Vinland. It cannot be determined from the Icelandic Annals that he went in search of an existing Norse colony in Vinland. The...

ISBN 9519600612. Icelandic Annals, pp. 156–7. Linna, Martti (1989). Suomen varhaiskeskiajan lähteitä. p. 138. ISBN 951-96006-1-2. Icelandic Annals, pp. 182–3...

In Icelandic folklore, the Lagarfljótsormur (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlaːɣarˌfljoutsˌɔrmʏr̥]) or Lagarfljót worm is a lake monster purported to live...

three Icelandic annals which mention his death under the year 1041: Annales regii, the Lögmanns annáll and the Flateyarbók annals. These three annals are...

catastrophically in the year 1041, according to several Icelandic Annals, and was later the object for an Icelandic saga in the 12th century; the Yngvars saga víðförla...

Flateyjarannáll ('The Flateyjarbók Annals') are Icelandic annals found at the end of Flateyjarbók. They were compiled by the priest Magnús Þórhallsson...

and the Hebrides. Other sources accord Haraldr similar titles. The Icelandic annals, for example, style him "Svðréyiakonvngs" ("king of the Hebrides")...

although this implies a very late death date of 1074. One version of the Icelandic Annals has his rule lasting 52 years, providing the more commonly quoted year...

17th century. Two Icelandic annals state that Basques whalers were active around the Westfjords (the northwestern peninsula of Iceland) in 1610. A third...

Norse: Skálholt Annals) is a medieval Icelandic manuscript preserved as manuscript AM 420 at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. It takes...

confirmed by several Icelandic sources—the sagas of Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson (an Icelandic chieftain) and Guðmundr Arason (an Icelandic ecclesiast)—which recount...

have an immigrant background, and very few Norwegians are Muslim. Icelandic annals date the arrival of representatives from the Muslim sultan of Tunis...

ordinary usage in the course of the late Middle Ages. In c. 1271, the Icelandic Annals uses the term Kven, stating the following: "Then Karelians (Kereliar)...

Flateyjarbók (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈflaːtˌeiːjarˌpouːk]; "Book of Flatey") is an important medieval Icelandic manuscript. It is also known as GkS...

survives of the saga today. In addition, some passages were copied into Icelandic annals, and have thus been passed down to us today. The small fragments we...

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mastermind a massive military expedition of his own. Described by the Icelandic Annals as the largest force to have ever set sail from Norway, the fleet reached...

indtil 1578 (in Icelandic). Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt. pp. xxxi. ISBN 978-82-7061-192-8. Eldbjørg Haug, The Icelandic Annals as Historical...

Jacob. However, the later Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus and the Icelandic annals say that "the Swedish king", by implication Anund Jacob, had a daughter...

thirteenth-century saga-compilation Heimskringla. The fact that the Icelandic annals allege that Guðrøðr assumed the kingship of the Isles in 1160 could...