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Journal articles on the topic "Icelandic sagas"

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Khlevov, A. A., I. B. Goubanov, and O. A. Markelova. "“The Book of the Settlement of the Land” in Icelandic historiography of the 19th-21st centuries." Abyss (Studies in Philosophy, Political science and Social anthropology), no. 3 (29) (2024): 194–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.33979/2587-7534-2024-3-194-206.

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The object of study in the article is the Icelandic “Book of the Settlement of the Land,” created in the 13th century, and the history of its study by humanities scholars in Iceland during the 19th-21st centuries. The initial settlement of Iceland is not only an object of interest for Icelandic science, it also has enormous symbolic and emotional importance for the bearers of modern Icelandic culture, therefore it has served as the theme of works of art and has become an integral part of the Icelandic national identity. The perception of the “Book of the Settlement of the Land”, as well as the
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Jakubczyk, Radosław. "„Wielu, co go widzi, nie wie, czy to chłop czy niewiasta”, czyli o (nie)męskości w staroislandzkiej Sadze o Egilu i Sadze o Njalu." Przegląd Humanistyczny 62, no. 2 (461) (2018): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.5797.

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In this article, I discuss how masculinity is constructed in Old Icelandic Egils saga and Njáls saga through various kinds of unmanliness (impotence, lack of facial hair, baldness, effeminacy, cowardice, old age). Both sagas demonstrate the restrictiveness of gender roles in medieval Iceland and how men become their captives. The ideal of masculinity is so exaggerated that it becomes oppressive, because everything may be used against men. It leads to failed marriages and feuds. However, Egils saga’s and Njáls saga’s treatment of gender is critical.
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Patzuk-Russell, Ryder C. "Recent Translations of the Medieval Icelandic Bishops' Sagas." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 30 (June 6, 2023): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/scancan241.

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This article reviews the two most recent English-language translations of medieval sagas of Icelandic bishops, both from 2021: Margaret Cormack's The Saga of St. Jón of Hólar, published with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Theodore M. Andersson's Bishops in Early Iceland, published with the Viking Society for Northern Research. Both translations represent valuable new contributions to the field. In addition to a critical overview of these texts, the article overviews the history of English translations of the genre of medieval Icelandic bishops' sagas.
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Andersson, Theodore M. "Icelandic Sagas. Paul Schach." Speculum 60, no. 4 (1985): 1017–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2853771.

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Jackson, Tatjana N., and Elena V. Litovskikh. "“Tatars” and the “State of the Tatars” in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature." Golden Horde Review 13, no. 1 (2025): 262–76. https://doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2025-13-2.262-276.

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Research objective: The purpose of this study is to present the entire body of information about the Tatars and the Tatar State contained in Old Norse-Icelandic literature.Research materials: The materials are the works of Old Norse-Icelandic writing of various genres. These are Icelandic annals, geographical treatises, and sagas of several types: chi-valric sagas, bishops’ sagas, sagas of ancient times, and local, or original, chivalric sagas.Results and scientific novelty: An exhaustive selection of source material has been achieved for the first time in scholarly literature. The main conclu
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Litovskikh, Elena V. "No Risk, No State." Drevneishie gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy 2025, no. 46 (2025): 317–25. https://doi.org/10.32608/1560-1382-2025-46-317-325.

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This is a review of a recently published book by a saga scholar from the USA Oren Falk dedicated to the first period of Icelandic history (before 1262, the so-called “Icelandic Commonwealth”): Falk O. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. XIII, 358 p. ISBN: 978-0-1988-6604-6. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198866046.001.0001. Falk addresses not only the widely known (and long ago translated into many languages, Russian among them) family sagas and the Sturlunga saga, but also those sagas and þættir that are rarely used as sources and therefore
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Gíslason, Kári. "Retelling the Icelandic family sagas." postmedieval 12, no. 1-4 (2021): 53–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41280-021-00220-0.

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Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier. "Rape in the Icelandic Sagas." Journal of Family History 40, no. 4 (2015): 431–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199015599520.

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Norðfjörð, Björn Ægir. "Adapting a Literary Nation to Film: National Identity, Neoromanticism and the Anxiety of Influence." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 19 (December 1, 2010): 12–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/scancan47.

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ABSTRACT: This essay addresses the interrelations of film and literature in the Icelandic context by focusing primarily on two case studies. The first regards an early twentieth-century group of Neoromantic writers, commonly known as the Varangians, whose plays and novels provided the narrative material for the first fiction features set in Iceland. The second addresses the conspicuous lack of adaptations made from either the medieval sagas or the work of Iceland’s most celebrated novelist, Halldór Laxness. It is argued that this lack stems from the high regard in which literature, and these w
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Vorotniak, Ivan. "Zealots of christian piety in medieval Scandinavia: the case of Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir." History Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 57 (June 30, 2023): 138–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/hj2023.57.138-149.

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This article studies the characteristics of one of the main female characters presented in the Vinland sagas – Gudrid Torbjarnardóttir, who was the personification of an ideal pious Christian.Such an image was characteristic of the so-called exemplum – a variety of artistic narration, which is characterized by moralistic narratives, real or illusory, that were used as typical models to visualize events and facts.Contemporary scientists consider the image of Gudrid Torbjarnardóttir as the keeper of the pagan tradition and the intermediary between the old and new worlds (Paganism and Christianit
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Icelandic sagas"

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Rogers, Eirlys Anne. "Character portrayal in three Icelandic sagas." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19035.

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This dissertation outlines the political and social organization of the Icelandic Commonwealth, and analyses the characters of Gunnlaug in Gunnlaugs saga; of Brodd-Helgi, Geitir, Bjami and Thorkel in Vápnfirŏinga saga and of Snorri in Eyrbyggja saga.
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O'Donoghue, Heather. "Relations between verse and prose in some Icelandic sagas." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277692.

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Matheson, Laura E. "Madness and deception in Irish and Norse-Icelandic sagas." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227591.

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This thesis explores the representation of mental illness and mental incapacity in medieval Irish and Norse-Icelandic saga literature, with a particular focus on the theme of deception in representations of madness. These texts are compared using the methods of literary close reading. It begins (Chapters 1 and 2) with an overview of concepts of madness found in the two bodies of literature (drawing on law texts and poetry as well as the sagas) and the different narrative uses to which these concepts are put. Some general parallels and contrasts are drawn, and the cross-cultural transmission of
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Driscoll, Matthew James. "Sagas attributed to sr. Jon Oddsson Hjaltalin (1749-1835)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358434.

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Grossman, Deborah. "Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1363964743.

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Gentry, Jennifer R. "Wives and whetters the dichotomous nature of women in Medieval Iceland /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1313914851&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Wyatt, Ian Tony. "The form and function of landscape in the Old Icelandic family sagas." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433298.

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McGregor, Rick. "Per Olof Sundman and the Icelandic sagas : a study of narrative method /." Göteborg : Univ, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370331499.

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Attar, Karen. "Treachery and Christianity : two themes in the Riddarasögur". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318323.

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Finlay, Alison. "A study of the narrative themes and literary relationships of four Icelandic poets' sagas : Bjarnar saga hitdoelakappa, Kormaks saga, Hallfredar saga and Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240239.

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Books on the topic "Icelandic sagas"

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Magnusson, Magnus. The Icelandic sagas. The Folio Society, 1999.

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Anthony, Faulkes, ed. Three Icelandic outlaw sagas. Everyman, 2001.

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Kristjánsson, Jónas. Icelandic manuscripts: Sagas, history, and art. Icelandic Literary Society, 1996.

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1907-, Jones Gwyn, ed. Eirik the Red and other Icelandic sagas. Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Friðriksson, Adolf. Sagas and popular antiquarianism in Icelandic archaeology. Avebury, 1994.

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1907-1999, Jones Gwyn, ed. Eirik the Red and other Icelandic sagas. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Kristjánsson, Jónas. Eddas and sagas: Iceland's medieval literature. Hid íslenska bókmenntafélag, 1988.

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Byock, Jesse L. Viking language: Learn Old Norse, runes, and Icelandic sagas. Jules William Press, 2013.

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Bredsdorff, Thomas. Chaos & love: The philosophy of the Icelandic family sagas. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2001.

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Bredsdorff, Thomas. Chaos & love: The philosophy of the Icelandic family sagas. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Icelandic sagas"

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Glassman, Ronald M. "The Icelandic Sagas." In The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51695-0_120.

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Andersson, Theodore M. "Kings’ Sagas (Konungasögur)." In Old Norse-Icelandic Literature. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501741654-006.

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Clover, Carol J. "Icelandic Family Sagas (Íslendingasögur)." In Old Norse-Icelandic Literature. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501741654-007.

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Norman, William H. "Ancient Icelandic Other." In Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003137009-1.

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Vídalín, Arngrímur. "Plinian Monsters in Old Norse Encyclopaedic Literature." In The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192896506.013.32.

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Abstract Iceland’s manuscript tradition grew directly out of the introduction of the Latin alphabet after its conversion to Christianity; the first Old Norse works were translations of saints’ lives, and Icelandic sagas are invariably grounded in a Christian essence. Moreover, Latin scholarly works like those of Pliny the Elder, St Augustine, and St Isidore made their way to Iceland, and medieval Icelandic teratology was rooted in their thought. This chapter examines three prominent fourteenth-century Icelandic works: Hauksbók, Stjórn, and Narfeyrarbók. The first is a compilation of sagas and
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Phelpstead, Carl. "Icelandic Identities." In An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066516.003.0003.

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Chapter 3 looks at ways in which sagas of Icelanders engage with and explore three broad aspects of identity: nationality (including the importance of feuds in medieval Icelandic law), gender and sexuality, and the distinction between human and non-human (including the supernatural). The sagas thus performed what is sometimes called “ideological work”: they gave expression to the common memories and ideals of a community, and they strengthened bonds within that community through the shared activity of reading the stories or hearing them read. By bringing the sagas into dialogue with approaches
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Phelpstead, Carl. "Encountering the Sagas." In An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066516.003.0001.

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Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter. Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Icelanders produced as rich, varied, and extensive a vernacular literature as was produced anywhere in medieval Europe. That literature has been central to Icelandic cultural identity. It has also played a prominent role in the formation of national identity in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, as well as in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. Medieval Icelandic literature has also inspired many notable writers in English since the eighteenth century. This chapter begins by reading a couple of short episodes f
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Ceolin, Martina. "Translating Medieval Icelandic Sagas." In Tradurre: un viaggio nel tempo. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-248-2/007.

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Within the framework of Translation Studies, much consideration has been given to the role recipients play in a translation process. However, a number of important questions arise in this regard when considering the translation of texts that are culturally and historically distant. In this contribution, I will explore the challenge of translating medieval Icelandic sagas, to demonstrate how crucial it is that translations of such texts be carried out not only with the supposed public in mind, but also by valorizing the cultural and historical specificities of the source-texts themselves. Examp
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Phelpstead, Carl. "Reading Selected Sagas." In An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066516.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 examines a selection of the most admired and most widely studied sagas of Icelanders. It demonstrates how the source traditions discussed in chapter 2 and the thematic concerns examined in chapter 3 come together in narrative explorations of identity. Themes of gender and sexuality, family, human and non-human relations, friendship, and more are explored in brief yet thorough overviews of these Icelandic stories. The texts discussed in detail include: Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka (“The Tale of Audun from the West Fjords”), the poets’ sagas (skáldasögur), Egils saga Skallagrímssonar, the
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"Hebrew Sagas and Icelandic Sagas:." In The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.6380574.6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Icelandic sagas"

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Litovskikh, Elena V. "PROBLEMS OF THE TRANSLATION OF NICKNAMES IN THE LANDNÁMABÓK." In Second Scientific readings in memory of Professor V. P. Berkov. St. Petersburg State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063580.

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Old Norse nicknames (both ordinary and in the form of prepositive name extensions) found in written sources should not be transliterated, but translated for a better understanding of plot twists and turns and ease of perception of the text by a Russianspeaking reader. In view of the relative small size of the Old Icelandic society, the same Icelanders are not only mentioned in the Landnámabók (‘The Book of Settlements’), but also act as characters in various Icelandic family sagas, which, in turn, have several independent translations into Russian. A comparative analysis of the material of the
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Burnatov, A. I. "THE JOMSVIKINGS: THE IMAGE OF SCANDINAVIAN WARRIORS IN ICELANDIC SAGAS." In Историческое вече: проблемы всемирной истории. НовГУ им. Ярослава Мудрого, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34680/978-5-89896-870-0/2023.veche.05.

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Gvozdetskaya, Natalia Yu. "PERCEPTION OF TIME IN HUNGRVAKA." In Second Scientific readings in memory of Professor V. P. Berkov. St. Petersburg State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063569.

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The paper examines the perception of time in the Old Icelandic ‘chronicle’ Hungrvaka ‘Awakening hunger’ (13th century) in the aspect of the correlation of local and foreign traditions of time counting and time markers. The paper discusses the specifics of usage of natural temporal names (winter and summer, day and night, etc.), indications of the time of power and death of foreign and Icelandic leaders, the role of genealogies and chronology ‘from the Birth of Christ’, as well as that of church holidays. The author comes to the conclusion about the combination in this work of the old local tra
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Jakobsson, Ármann. "Suing for Peace: The Historiographer Sturla Þórðarson and the Icelandic Contemporary Sagas as Ideological Documents." In Fiat pax. Le désir de paix dans la littérature médiévale. Fabula, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.58282/colloques.9694.

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Malkova, A. N. "BEGGARS AND VAGABONDS IN THE SPACE OF ICELANDIC SAGAS NARRATIVE: THE ROLE AND FUNCTION IN THE CONFLICT." In Историческое вече: проблемы всемирной истории. НовГУ им. Ярослава Мудрого, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34680/978-5-89896-870-0/2023.veche.06.

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Sugar, Michael, and Runar Unnthorsson. "Simulation Based Grid Optimization to Enhance Renewable Energy Storage in Iceland." In ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2014-36143.

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Renewable energy resources are contributing evermore to the generation mix worldwide, however, expanding grids in size and complexity have given rise to unforeseen complications such as frequency oscillations, voltage sags and spikes, and power outages. In 2013, nearly 100% of electricity generation in Iceland was from hydropower and geothermal sources; there is also high potential for wind and tidal energy, both options are being explored and would benefit from additional technologies to manage fluctuations and store energy surplus. Landsnet is the sole transmission system operator (TSO) resp
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E. Scheiber, S., P. C. LaFemina, E. Sturkell, and S. J. Webb. "Geodetic Investigation of Torfajökull Volcano, Iceland (Best of SAGA)." In 70th EAGE Conference and Exhibition - Workshops and Fieldtrips. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20147979.

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