The hafstramb and margygr of the King's Mirror: an analysis
ABSTRACT. Greenland and Iceland are described with unusual scientific accuracy in the King's Mirror. However this thirteenth-century manuscript contains a few 'wonders' that appear more mythological than rational. They include the hafstramb and the margygr, commonly translated respect...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1060.224 http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/%7Elehn/_Papers_for_Download/PolarRecord-merman.pdf |