• Ari Þorgilsson (1067/1068 – 9 November 1148; Old Norse: [ˈɑre ˈθorˌɡilsˌson]; Modern Icelandic: [ˈaːrɪ ˈθɔrˌcɪlsˌsɔːn]; also anglicized Ari Thorgilsson)...
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  • American filmmaker Ari Taub (wrestler) (born 1971), Canadian Greco-Roman wrestler Ari Telch (born 1962), Mexican actor Ari Þorgilsson (1067–1148), Icelandic...
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    dealing with early Icelandic history. The author was an Icelandic priest, Ari Þorgilsson, working in the early 12th century. The work originally existed in two...
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    earliest sagas written about the founding of Iceland by a priest called Ari Þorgilsson working in the early 12th century) Kjalnesinga saga Kormáks saga Króka-Refs...
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  • Deep-Minded, was probably first recorded by the Icelander Ari Þorgilsson (1067 – 1148). Ari was born not long after the death of his great-grandmother...
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    conflict with existing inhabitants. On the basis of Íslendingabók by Ari Þorgilsson, and Landnámabók, histories dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...
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    sought to spread Catholicism (pre-Great Schism) among the population. Ari Þorgilsson, in his historical work Íslendingabók, recounts that the society was...
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    it to have been put together when people met at things (assemblies). Ari Þorgilsson may have written the earliest version of Landnámabók in addition to...
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    Íslendingabók (written in the early twelfth century by the Icelandic priest Ari Þorgilsson) Yngvi Tyrkja konungr 'Yngvi king of Turkey' appears as the father of...
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  • Icelanders) by Icelandic chronicler Ari Þorgilsson, was written between 1122 and 1133, some time after the event. Ari writes of "Christian men", titled...
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  • minister Agnar Helgason, anthropologist Ari Brynjolfsson, physicist Ari Þorgilsson, documentarian, chronicler Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, geologist, explorer...
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    settlement may have started somewhat earlier. The medieval chronicler Ari Þorgilsson said Ingólfur was the first Nordic settler in Iceland, but mentioned...
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  • "sun-shaft, sun beam"). It corresponds to the Nordic patronymic Þórgilsson (f. e. Ari Þorgilsson). Amy H. Sturgis (born 1971), American author Ann Sturgis (born...
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    society can accurately reflect the conditions there as a background. Ari Þorgilsson writes in his Íslendingabók that he got his information from his uncle...
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  • and parsonage located in Snæfellsnesi, Iceland. It is claimed that Ari Þorgilsson lived there in the 12th century. In 1981 a memorial by Ragnar Kjartansson...
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    according to Norse tradition. He inherited the throne of Romerike. Ari Thorgilsson in his Íslendingabók calls him Eystein Fart (Old Norse: Eystein fret/fjert)...
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  • female elected to the presidency of any republic. Prominent writers were Ari Þorgilsson, father of Icelandic historical writing; Snorri Sturluson, author of...
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  • Leonardo. See Leonardo Arentino Bruni. Ari Þorgilsson Fróði. Ari Þorgilsson Fróði (1067–1148). Known as Ari the Wise, he was a prominent Icelandic medieval...
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    means "weakling". The term is thought to have first been used by Ari Thorgilsson in his work Íslendingabók, also called The Book of the Icelanders,...
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  • Thorir the Silent was Rognvald's third son by his marriage to Ragnhild. Ari Þorgilsson quotes a short section from the lost Torf-Einarr’s Saga in the Landnámabók...
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    Retrieved 13 June 2018. "Ari Thorgilsson the Learned | Icelandic historian". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 June 2018. "Ari Þorgilsson fróði 1067-1148"...
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  • himself converted to Christianity. Thorgeir's story is preserved in Ari Thorgilsson's Íslendingabók. "Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi - Conversion to Christianity"...
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    1262–1264 when Iceland was taken over by the Norwegian crown. According to Ari Thorgilsson, the earliest Icelandic laws were modeled on those from the Norwegian...
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    after which baptism and conversion to Christianity became compulsory. Ari Thorgilsson's Book of the Icelanders, the oldest indigenous account of Iceland's...
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    Þorgeir's role in the adoption of Christianity in Iceland is preserved in Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók, no mention is made of Þorgeir throwing his idols into...
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    arrived or had left prior to their arrival. The twelfth-century scholar Ari Þorgilsson's Íslendingabók reasserts that items including bells corresponding to...
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  • to make Harald look more royal. It may have been the Icelandic poet Ari Þorgilsson who constructed the genealogy of the Ynglings and connected Harald Fairhair's...
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    (d. 1142) Adela of Normandy, countess of Blois (approximate date) Ari Thorgilsson, Icelandic chronicler and writer (d. 1148) John Taronites, Byzantine...
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  • use of previous written works including those of Sæmundr fróði and Ari Þorgilsson as well as Acta sanctorum in Selio and possibly Historia de Antiquitate...
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    what appear to be written sources. It twice refers to the writings of Ari Þorgilsson, once to a lost Þorgils saga Höllusonar and once to a Njarðvíkinga saga...
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