The Malleability of the Past: "Íslendingabók" as Narrative History

• Main Author: Martina Ceolin
• Other Authors: Christopher Crocker, Dustin Geeraert, Ceolin, Martina
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: D.S. Brewer 2022
• Subjects: Settore L-FIL-LET/15 - Filologia Germanica; Settore L-LIN/15 - Lingue e Letterature Nordiche; Settore M-STO/01 - Storia Medievale; Ari; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10278/3754556; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800106093.005

"Íslendingabók" (Book of Icelanders) is the earliest surviving history of Iceland, written by the priest Ari Þorgilsson sometime between 1122 and 1133. Despite spanning the period from the Settlement in the ninth century to 1118, the work is concise, which suggests that a specific selectio...