According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

According to Icelandic folklore, the horseshoe shaped canyon Ásbyrgi located in Jökulsárgljúfur National Park, northern Iceland was formed by Sleipnir's hoof.

According to Icelandic government statistics, 99 % of the nation's inhabitants live in urban areas ( localities with populations greater than 200 ) and 60 % live in the greater Reykjavík Area.

According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, he was named Magnus ( Magnús in Old Norse ) by Sigvatr Þórðarson, his father's Icelandic skald, after Charlemagne, Carolus Magnus in Latin.

According to Snorre, the Icelandic author of the Nordic Sagas, who wrote in the 13th century, Odin was supposed to have migrated from the region of the Caucasus or the area just east of the Black Sea near the turn of the 1st century CE.

According to some medieval accounts and maps, Kvenland included also the Kola Peninsula north from Bjarmaland, as stated e. g. in the late 1150s ' AD Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan in which the Icelandic Abbot Níkulás Bergsson writes that north from Värmland there are " two Kvenlands ( Kvenlönd ), which extend to north of Bjarmia ( Bjarmalandi )".

According to the Icelandic sagas early Viking Age chieftains enjoyed hunting and entertaining their entourages in the forests and on the lakes in this area.

" According to University of Iceland anthropologist Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, Icelanders ' tolerance of the museum is an indicator of how Icelandic society has changed since the 1990s, when a newly elected neoliberal government fostered a more open outlook on entertainment, creativity and tourism that has " enabled new ideas to emerge publicly ".

According to Wainwright, the name comes from the Icelandic stack meaning ' a columnar rock ' and the correct translation of this should be High Rocks.

According to John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ( 1818 ), up is used in the sense of something being at an end, and derives from the Old Norse word uppi which is still used in Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian, while helly refers to a holy day or festival.

According to Icelandic custom, people are generally referred to by first and middle names and patronyms are used if disambiguation is required.

According to Marius De Vries as recorded by Lucy O ' Brien in her book Madonna: Like an Icon, one of the song's writers, the track's architecture is " distinctly Björkian " and the Icelandic singer " has such a particular and idiosyncratic approach to the construction of lyrics and phrasing ".

According to the sagas, he ruled Norway from approximately 872 to 930.

According to the sagas, he became familiar with Norway through an acquaintance with Norwegian merchants including Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, who would later become Earl of Orkney.

According to the sagas, Harald had previously been married to Bjadok.

According to the sagas, the martyrdom took place after Easter, on April 16.

According to the sagas, Halfdan Hvitbeinn ( Whiteleg ) was the first Yngling in Norway.

According to the sagas, Halfdan Hvitbeinn ( Whiteleg ) was the first Yngling in Norway.

According to the Fagrskinna collection of sagas, King Harald III of Norway uttered these lines of dróttkvætt at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; the internal assonances and the alliteration are bolded:

According to Norse sagas, the skraelings of Vinland responded so ferociously that the newcomers eventually withdrew and gave up their plans to settle the area.

According to the sagas, in 1103 Magnus set out again to raid in Ireland.

According to the sagas, while awaiting these supplies, they went on land through a marshy area and saw a large dust cloud on the horizon.

According to the sagas, the West Norse entered the service of the Guard considerably later than the East Norse.

According to the sagas Morkinskinna and Heimskringla, Inge ’ s infirmity stemmed from having been carried into battle by one of his guardians during a battle in 1137: “... his back was knotted into a hump, and the one foot was shorter than the other ; and he was besides so infirm that he could scarcely walk as long as he lived .” s: Heimskringla / Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald # Of Sigurd Slembidjakn.

According to the sagas, relations between the brothers were peaceful as long as their guardians were alive.

According to the sagas, Eystein and Sigurd had plotted to strip Inge of his royal title and divide his share of the kingdom between them.

According to the two sagas, he was the son of an Erik who fought Harald Fairhair and who succeeded the brothers Björn at Hauge and Anund Uppsale:

According to the sagas, he was the father of Halfdan the Black, and thus the grandfather of Harald Fairhair, the first king of unified Norway.

According to the Norse sagas, the Wulfings ruled the Geatish petty kingdom of Östergötland.

According to the sagas, the region called Jämtland was originally settled by fugitives from Trøndelag after Harald Fairhair united Norway in the 9th century.

According to the sagas, relations between the three brothers were peaceful as long as the two younger brothers ' guardians were alive.

According to the sagas, Eystein and Sigurd had plotted to strip Inge of his royal title and divide his share of the kingdom between them.

According to medieval kings ' sagas, it was a Viking Age petty kingdom.

According to the sagas, he was part of an expedition for the exploration of Vinland.

According to the Vinland sagas, when Snorri was 3 years old, his family left Vinland because of hostilities with Native Americans ( called Skrælings by the settlers, which is the Old Norse equivalent of the English term " wretches ").

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

According to Fundinn Noregr, Ægir is a son of the giant Fornjótr and brother of Logi (" fire ") and Kári (" wind ").

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ") was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, or the " Bodhisattva Vehicle.

According to his disciple Cuthbert, Bede was also doctus in nostris carminibus (" learned in our songs ").

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to Hippolytus of Rome, John Mark is not Mark the Cousin of Barnabas, and Barnabas did not dispute with Paul because of personal favor to a blood relative, but due to his character as his nickname Barnabas (" Son of Encouragement ") indicates.

According to the standard interpretation of Hume on personal identity, he was a Bundle Theorist, who held that the self is nothing but a bundle of experiences (" perceptions ") linked by the relations of causation and resemblance ; or, more accurately, that the empirically warranted idea of the self is just the idea of such a bundle.

According to the regulation of June 11, 1748 the colour was simply red, which is common known today as " Dannebrog rød " (" Dannebrog red ").

According to OED (" A member of a class of robbers in India and Burma, who plunder in armed bands.

According to deontology, we have a duty to act in a way that does those things that are inherently good as acts (" truth-telling " for example ), or follow an objectively obligatory rule ( as in rule utilitarianism ).

According to the document itself, the Philippians had sent Epaphroditus, their envoy (" messenger and minister " Phil.

According to the Sejarah Melayu (" Malay Annals "), the Khmer prince Raja Ganji Sarjuna founded the kingdom of Gangga Negara ( modern-day Beruas, Perak ) in the 700s.

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Makot ), there are 613 mitzvot (" commandments ") in the Torah ; in Hebrew these are known as the Taryag mitzvot תרי " ג מצוות.

According to the American Productivity & Quality Center (" APQC ") there are basic principles an organization can develop to encourage and reward innovation.

According to his classmate Klepetař, like most residents of the predominantly German Sudetenlaender, " Gödel considered himself always Austrian and an exile in Czechoslovakia " (" ein Österreicher im Exil in der Tschechoslowakei ").

According to the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages, four of the six major dialects of Occitan ( Provençal, Auvergnat, Limousin and Languedocien ) are considered " severely endangered ", while the remaining two ( Gascon and Vivaro-Alpine ) are considered " definitely endangered " (" severely endangered " essentially means that only elderly people still speak the language fluently, while " definitely endangered " means that adults speak the language but are not passing it on to their children ).

According to Encyclopædia Britannica estimates ( as of 2005 ), adherents of Chinese folk religion account for some 6. 3 % of world population, and adherents of tribal religions (" ethnoreligionists ") for another 4. 0 %.

According to the English text, an eligible candidate " has reached his thirty-fifth year of age ", whereas the Irish text has this as " ag a bhfuil cúig bliana tríochad slán " (" has completed his thirty-five years ").

According to Goodrich, both lineages evolved from an earlier stem group, Protosauria (" first lizards ") in which he included some animals today considered reptile-like amphibians as well as early reptiles.

* According to Catholic doctrine, the Catholic Church is a visible identifiable body that is literally catholic, in the sense of universal (" for all people ").