The Historia Norwegiae Account of Greenland and Northern Peoples

Record summary

The anonymous Historia Norwegiae includes geographical and ethnographic notices concerning the northern world, including Greenland and peoples encountered beyond Icelandic waters. It is relevant to research on religiously framed northern knowledge because medieval historiography integrated remote geography into Christian accounts of kingdoms, peoples, and creation. The work is not an apocalyptic journey and does not provide a continuous expedition narrative. Its manuscript survival is late, its author and date are uncertain, and some details may derive from oral or written sources that cannot now be identified.