Leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement (1811-1879)

Íslenzkir Annálar, sive annales Islandici, ab anno Christi 803 ad annum 1430 / Ex Legati Arnæ-Magnæani et Magnæ bibliothecæ regiæ hafniensis melioris notæ codicibus membranaceis et chartaceis, cum interpretatione latina, variis lectionibus, prolegomenis, nec non indice personarum, locorum & rerum. [In Icelandic and Latin].

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