Note 587 — Chapter II
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What is known as the Kristni Saga gives an account of this change. Cf. Eugène Beauvois, Origines et fondation du plus ancien évêché du nouveau monde. Le diocèse de Gardhs en Grœnland, 986-1126 (Paris, 1878), an extract from the Mémoires de la Soc. d’Histoire, etc., de Beaune; C. A. V. Conybeare’s Place of Iceland in the history of European institutions (1877); Maurer’s Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte des germanischen Nordens; Wheaton’s Northmen; Worsaae’s Danes and Norwegians in England, p. 332; Jacob Rudolph Keyser’s Private Life of the Old Northmen, as translated by M. R. Barnard (London, 1868), and his Religion of the Northmen, as translated by B. Pennock (N. Y., 1854); Quarterly Review, January, 1862; and references in McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia, under Iceland.