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I'm joined by Professor Ging. Hello and welcome to the history of Vikings.

Today I'm joined by Professor Gisley Sigurdsen, a research professor at the Arnie

Magazine Institute of Icelandic Studies at the University of Iceland.

He has written on many topics pertaining to Norse and Icelandic culture and history, including

the Edas, Saga's,

Gaelic influence on the early culture and verbal art in Iceland, oral traditions, and much more.

He has written two books, which I've placed a link to in the description below, the first titled

The Medieval Icelandic Saga and oral tradition, a discourse on method, and the second titled

Gaelic influenceluence in Iceland.

Professor Sigurtsen, thank you so much for joining me today.

Well, thank you for having me. My pleasure.

Well, it's a pleasure to have you on, and I'm very excited to cover what we're talking about today,

because it's something I've thought a great deal about.

Today we're going to be talking about really a plethora

of topics pertaining to the discovery and settlement of Iceland in the Icelandic sagas, but

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