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Thorvald Kodransson the Far
Traveller (Old Norse: Þorvaldr
Koðránsson inn víðförli) was one of the
first Christian missionaries in
Iceland and then in...
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household deity for
boons in
Iceland occurs in the "Story of Þorvaldr
Koðránsson the Far-Travelled" (Þorvalds þættur víðförla) and the
Kristni saga where...
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these seems to have been an
Icelander returning from abroad, one
Thorvald Kodransson.
Accompanying Thorvald was a
Saxon bishop named Fridrek,
about whom little...
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active in
Iceland by 980. One of them was the
Icelandic native Thorvald Kodransson, who had been
baptised on the
continent by the
Saxon bishop Fridrek, with...
- blǫnduskáld (Þblǫnd) Þorvaldr
Hjaltason (ÞHjalt) Þorvaldr inn víðfǫrli
Koðránsson (Þvíðf) Þorvaldr
veili (Þveil) Þorvarðr tréfótr (Þtréf) Þorvarðr Þorgeirsson...
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return to Norway.
Christianisation of
Iceland Thangbrand Thorvald Kodransson Byock 2001, p. 298.
Curta 2016, p. 482. Byock,
Jesse (2001).
Viking Age...
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forced to
depart from the
island in 986
after his
Icelandic aide,
Thorvald Kodransson, had
murdered two men in a battle. Next the
Icelandic Stefnir Thorgilsson...
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still pagans. As a penance, Óláfr sent him to Iceland,
where Þorvaldr
Kodránsson and
Stefnir Þórgilsson's
missions had failed. Þangbrandr's
mission began...
