The Book of the Icelanders
An early history of Iceland by Ari Þorgilsson.
The full text of the Book of the Icelanders in Old Norse, with word-by-word glosses, sentence translations, and audio.
Íslendingabók í heild sinni á fornnorrænu, með upplestri. Orðskýringar og þýðingar eru á ensku.
4,149 words · 12 chapters · Old Norse · 100% glossed · Audio available
This text is Menota’s normalized edition of AM 113 b fol. Valdimar Ásmundarson’s 1891 edition, in the manuscript’s own spelling, is also available here, not yet glossed. Read Íslendingabók (Valdimar Ásmundarson) →
Glosses are generated by AI and may contain errors.
This text and its glosses come from Menota and are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old Norse * voice uses a neural voice from the Language and Voice Lab at Reykjavík University, trained on the Talrómur corpus (CC BY 4.0).