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ISL 1483738855 183 196 Pdf.Pdf (6.174Mb) Bibliography Texts and Translations Adam of Bremen. Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum = Hambur- gische Kirchengeschichte. Edited by Bernhard Schmeidler. 3rd ed. Scrip- tores Rerum Germanicarum in Usum Scholarum. Hannover: Hahn, 1917; reprinted 1977. -------- . History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen. Translated by Francis J. Tschan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Agrip af Noregskonungasggum: A Twelfth-Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway. Edited and translated by M. J. Driscoll. Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series 10: Viking Society for Northern Research, 1995; reprinted 2008. Biskupa sogur. Edited by Jon Sigurdsson, Gudbrandur Vigfusson, Eorvaldur Bjornsson, and Eirikur Jonsson. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Moller, 1858-78. The Book of Settlements. Translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1972. The Complete Sagas of Icelanders Including 49 Tales. 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