| Summary: | The extant learned and scientific literature from medieval Scandinavia and Iceland is likely only a small portion of what once existed. It includes, but is not limited to, astronomical, encyclopedic, geographical, grammatical, and medical literature. With the exception of a number of the geographical works, some of the medical treatises, and the so-called Four Grammatical Treatises, this literature has received modest scholarly attention, probably because much of it is based on translations or adaptations of non-native works. Information about the literature is found primarily in encyclopedias and in introductions to editions of the various works.
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