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Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is a historical treatise
Treatise

A treatise is a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay. A lengthy discourse on some subject....
 written between 1075 and 1080 by Adam of Bremen
Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen was one of the most important Germany medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ....
. It covers the period from 788
788

Events...
 to the time it was written. The treatise consist of:






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Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is a historical treatise
Treatise

A treatise is a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay. A lengthy discourse on some subject....
 written between 1075 and 1080 by Adam of Bremen
Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen was one of the most important Germany medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ....
. It covers the period from 788
788

Events...
 to the time it was written. The treatise consist of:
  • Liber I
  • Liber II
  • Liber III
  • Descriptio insularum aquilonis (A description of the northern islands)
  • M. Adami epilogus ad liemarum episcopum


Importance

The manuscript is one of the most important sources of the early Northern German and Scandinavian history and geography. It covers the relations between Saxons
Saxons

The Saxons were a confederation of Germanic peoples. Their modern-day descendants in Saxony are considered ethnic Germans; those in the eastern Netherlands are considered to be ethnic Dutch people; those in north eastern Belgium are considered to be ethnic Flemish people; and those in southern England ethnic English people ....
, Wendians and Danes.

The fourth book describes the geography of Scandinavia
Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
 and the baltic regions as well as Iceland
Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
, Greenland
Greenland

Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
 and Vinland
Vinland

Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen Leif Eriksson, about the year A.D. 1001.In 1960 archaeology evidence of the only known Norse colonization of the Americas in North America was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland , in what is now the Canada province of Newfoundl...
 (North America), being the oldest book mentioning (in chapter 38) a part of the American continent.

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