The Earliest States of Eastern Europe
DG-2011, 530-546

The Tale of the Greenlanders (Translation from Old Icelandic, foreword and commentary by Elena Gurevich)

E. A. Gurevich

It is for the fi rst time that «The Tale of the Greenlanders» (Grænlendingaþáttr)
is translated from Old Icelandic into Russian. The tale is likely to have been
created in the 13th century. It has been preserved only in «Flateyjarbók», the
famous Icelandic manuscript written in 1389–1394. The translation is supplied
with a geographical and historical commentary.

Keywords:
Old Norse-Icelandic literature, Grænlendingaþáttr, Flateyjarbók
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