Fragments of an 800-year-old manuscript found

Fragments of an 800-year-old manuscript found

“I lost my breath for a moment staring at the pieces of the manuscript,” says antiquities collector Eyþór Guðmundsson. He found fragments of a parchment scroll, pieces of which had been used to restore an old textbook. These pieces are estimated to be around 800 years old. When the collector realized what he had really discovered, he took this very rare find to Árnastofnun, where it was examined […]

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