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Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Sources

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Vékell the Shape-Changer performs the ritual of shooting an arrow between two mounds over a piece of land.

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[excerpt from] Ldn ch. 61b

61b. Vékell's Shooting Arrow

Vékell enn hamrammi hét maðr,...

There was a man called Vekell...

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The narrative of Landnámabók is set in the late 9th/early 10th century where people from mainly Norse cultures leave their homelands and sail to Iceland in the north west to settle. Landnámabók survives in 5 medieval manuscripts all dating to late 13th century and later. Sturlubók by Sturla Þórðarson, Hauksbók by Haukr Erlendsson (based on Sturlubók and a lost version by Styrmir Kárason), Melabók, Skarðsárbók and Þórðarbók.

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(Contributed by Liv Marit Aurdal.)

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Main text: Landnámabók

Attributes: Ritual Landscape Land-taking Shooting Arrow Arrow

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Text sections: Anon Ldn 61bIV

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