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Adam of Bremen d.c.1085
German ecclesiastical historian

As a canon at Bremen Cathedral from c.1066, he compiled the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (c.1075, 'History of the Archbishopric of Hamburg'), based on church archives and interviews with learned men. It is the most important source for the history, geography and politics of northern Europe between the 8th and 11th centuries, and contains the first written reference to the discovery of Vínland (North America) by the Norse explorer, Leif the Lucky, around the year 1000.