An example of a page from the Orkneyinga saga, as it appears in the 14th century Flatey Book.

The Flatey Book Annal wrote of the 1341 eruption that people saw large and small birds flying in the mountain's fire which were taken to be souls.

The Ættartolur, the genealogies appended to the Hversu Noregr byggdist in the Flatey Book introduce Halfdan the Old as the ruler of Ringiríki ( a territory including modern Ringerike and Valdres in Oppland ).

According to the Icelandic sagas (" Eirik the Red's Saga " and the " Saga of the Greenlanders "— chapters of the Hauksbók and the Flatey Book ), the Norse started to explore lands to the west of Greenland only a few years after the Greenland settlements were established.

The Flatey Book, (; lit.

) The Flatey Book and the Codex Regius were repatriated to Iceland in 1971 as Icelandic national treasures and are preserved and studied by the Árni Magnússon Institute.

The Flatey Book and Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts Concerning America as Early as the Tenth Century.

* Text and English translation by Loptsson of Eireks þáttr rauða (' Tale of Eirík the Red ') and Grœnlendinga þáttir (' Tale of the Greenlanders ') from the Flatey Book.

Parallel but not quite identical accounts of Nór the eponym of Norway appear in Fundinn Noregr (' Norway Found '), hereafter called F, which begins the Orkneyinga saga, and in Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was Settled '), hereafter called B, both found in the Flatey Book.

In the Orkneyinga saga and in Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was settled ')— both found in the Flatey Book — Fornjót appears as an ancient ruler of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland.

In the account called Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was inhabited ') in the Flatey Book, Snær is son of Jökul ( Jǫkull ' icicle, ice, glacier ') son of Kári.

Hversu Noregr byggðist () is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages, which survives only in the Flatey Book.

It is preserved in two versions of which one ( HróFlat ) is found in Flatey Book ( GKS 1005 fol 344-348, ca 1387-1395 ) and the second one ( Hró AM 557 4 °) in the Arnamagnæan Codex ( AM 557 4 ° 41r-42v, ca 1420-1450 ) in Copenhagen.

In the version of Heimskringla which is found in the Flatey Book, it is inserted together with Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa in the description of Olaf Haraldsson's wooing of the Swedish princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter.

Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa ( The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion ) is a short story, a þáttr on the Swedish claimant and Jomsviking Styrbjörn the Strong preserved in the Flatey Book ( GKS 1005 fol 342-344, ca 1387-1395 ).

Vǫlsa þáttr is a short story which is only extant in the Flatey Book, where it is found in a chapter of Óláfs saga helga.

One of them appears as Eymundar þáttr hrings in the Flatey Book and the other one is an introductory chapter in Yngvars saga víðförla.

According to the Norse sagas ( particularly the Jómsvíkinga saga, King Olaf Tryggvasson ’ s Saga, and stories found in the Flatey Book ), their stronghold Jomsborg was located on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, but the exact location is disputed by modern historians and archeologists.

The most important of these islands is Flatey.

The biggest is Flatey which name means < i > flat island </ i > and must be not confused with other islands of Iceland with the same name.

There is no ferry serving Flatey, however some houses are used as summer houses.

It also is the gateway to Flatey.

Sörla þáttr is a short story in Flateyjarbok, a collection of tales about Norwegian kings written by two Christian priests in 15th century, owned by a family from Flatey island.

The antipodes of the northernmost of these, Young Island, lie between Flatey and Grímsey Islands off the north central Icelandic coast, about 10 km from either.

Jon Finnsson, who resided on Flatey (' Flat Island ') in Breiðafjörður on the west coast of Iceland, was then the owner of the book which was already known as the Flateyjarbók.

Known places within the area are Flatey and Látrabjarg.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

But the most fundamental objection he has to poets appears in the Tenth Book, and it is derived from his doctrine of ideal forms.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Danishnama-i ' Alai is called " the Book of Knowledge for ' Ala ad-Daulah ".

It should be noted that the Book of Enoch is considered apocryphal by most denominations of Christianity and all denominations of Judaism.

* There is also mention of the Analytical Engine ( or the Clockwork Ouroboros as it is also known there ) in The Book of the War, a Faction Paradox anthology edited by Lawrence Miles.

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

In Book 7, Ajax is chosen by lot to meet Hector in a duel which lasts most of a whole day.

In Book 15, Hector is restored to his strength by Apollo and returns to attack the ships.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

In the Book of Exodus, Amram () Arabic عمران Imran, is the father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam and the husband of Jochebed.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

* 1857 – " The Spirits Book " by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.

Using the biblical Book of Revelation as a point of departure, Caesar Antichrist presents a parallel world of extreme formal symbolism in which Christ is resurrected not as an agent of spirituality but as an agent of the Roman Empire that seeks to dominate spirituality.

Since Luke-Acts was originally a single work, it is important to note that the purpose of Acts is normally examined in conjunction with the Book of Luke.