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The article argues that the Old Norse notion of Hvítramannaland/Írland it mikla is by no means a wholesale borrowing from Irish voyage narratives, as has been argued in recent scholarship. Rather, it is a fictional space that combines widespread ideas of stranger-kings and lost islands with the notion of Ireland as a strange, forbidding but also marvellously paradoxical location from which most would be advised to keep a safe distance.
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