• The Commonwealth Saga is a series of science fiction novels by British science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton. This saga consists of the novels Pandora's...
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  • Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia. The most famous saga-genre is the Íslendingasögur...
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    Njáls saga (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈnjauls ˌsaːɣa] listen), also Njála ([ˈnjauːla] listen), or Brennu-Njáls saga ([ˈprɛnːʏ-ˌnjauls ˌsaːɣa] listen)...
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    The Icelandic Commonwealth, also known as the Icelandic Free State, was the political unit existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing...
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    ˈɒːsˌmʊndarˌsɔnar]), also known as Grettla, Grettir's Saga or The Saga of Grettir the Strong, is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It details the life of Grettir Ásmundarson...
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  • universe as the Commonwealth Saga, the Void Trilogy is set 1200 years after the end of Judas Unchained. A timeline that links the Commonwealth Saga with the...
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  • Peter F. Hamilton. The series is set in the same universe as The Commonwealth Saga, 1,200 years after the end of Judas Unchained. Peter F. Hamilton sold...
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    are documented in the Grœnlendinga saga ("Saga of the Greenlanders" henceforth Grl.) and Eiríks saga rauða ("Saga of Eirik the Red" Henceforth Eir.),...
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  • into a commonwealth after the Seven Heroes' defeat; the still-living Emperor or Empress listens to the minstrel. Later versions of Romancing SaGa 2 include...
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    Hrafnkels saga (Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈhrɑvnˌkels ˌsɑɣɑ]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈr̥apn̥ˌcɛls ˌsaːɣa] ) or Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða (O.N.: [ˈfrœysˌɡoðɑ];...
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    The first generation Proton Saga was the first automobile produced by Malaysian automobile manufacturer, Proton. It was based on the 1983 Mitsubishi Lancer...
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    approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually...
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    Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting...
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    during the eponymous Age of the Sturlungs period of the Icelandic Commonwealth. Sturlunga saga mostly covers the history of Iceland between 1117 and 1264. It...
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  • Ron Charles of the Washington Post “In someone else’s hands, “Commonwealth” would be a saga, a sprawling chronicle of events and relationships spread out...
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    Erik the Red, was a Icelandic explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland. Erik...
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    Icelandic Commonwealth, who was nicknamed "the Peacock" because of his proud bearing and magnificent wardrobe. He is a major character in the Laxdæla saga and...
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  • Íslendinga saga (Saga of Icelanders) makes up a large part of Sturlunga saga, a compilation of secular contemporary sagas written in thirteenth-century...
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    Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Islendinga Saga. pp. 244–45. Sigurðsson, Jón Viðar (1999). Chieftains and Power in the Icelandic Commonwealth. p. 136. 'Jón...
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  • is the first book of the Saga of Pliocene Exile (known as the Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth). The novel sets the series...
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  • century Iceland, in the time of the Icelandic Commonwealth. Their story is partly told in Sturlunga saga, and members of the clan were significant participants...
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    internal strife in mid-13th-century Iceland. It is documented in the Sturlunga saga. This period is marked by the conflicts of local chieftains, goðar, who amassed...
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    novel, named The Night's Dawn Trilogy. He has also published the Commonwealth Saga with the Void Trilogy and The Chronicle of the Fallers in the same...
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    Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...
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    Shikoku 36. Tokushima 37. Kagawa 38. Ehime 39. Kōchi   Kyūshū 40. Fukuoka 41. Saga 42. Nagasaki 43. Kumamoto 44. Ōita 45. Miyazaki 46. Kagoshima 47. Okinawa...
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    (Circassian Saga 8: Lady Setenaya and the Shepherd: The Birth of Sawseruquo), 185–186 (Abaza Saga 47: How Sosruquo Was Born), 387–394 (Ubykh Saga 86: The...
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  • Iceland. She appears in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, known collectively as the Vinland sagas. She and her husband Thorfinn...
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  • Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam 06 June 2024 The Orkneyinga Saga Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham...
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    "rain or shine". Raised in Emporia, VA, he received a degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Mar 27, 1988 – June 26, 1988)...
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    his father's saga, or biography. In 1278, he commissioned the same man to write his own saga. The Saga of Magnus the lawmender (Magnúss saga lagabœtis)...
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