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Egeler
(Matthias): Landscape meditations on death: the place-lore of the Hvanndalur Valley in Northern Iceland.
In
Landscape and myth in North-Western Europe
(2019), pp. 63–78.
Suggests the place-story of the ‘Island of the Living’ in Loch Cré was borrowed from Ireland to Iceland, becoming the place-myth of the Ódáinsakur (the ‘Field of the Not-Dead’) in Hvanndalur.
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F 4.8 Literature and learning: Comparative literature: Old Norse literature