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on BBC Home Service Basic

A series of three talks on the North Atlantic voyages of the Norsemen by Gwyn Jones author of a new English translation of the Icelandic chronicle. Bgil's Saga
1-Westwards to Iceland
(circa 860)
Professor Jones describes how the accidental discovery of Iceland came about just in time to provide new homes and new estates for the dispossessed Norwegian barons whose lands were about to be overrun by King Harald Fairhair :

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Gwyn Jones
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King Harald Fairhair
Source: Radio Times

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