The Ice-Shirt

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name = The Ice-Shirt
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = William T. Vollmann
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cover_artist = Timothy Ely
country = Author: United States
First edition: England
language = English
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genre = Historical novel
publisher = André Deutsch
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release_date = May 1990
media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 404 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-233-98506-9 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = first book of series
followed_by = Fathers and Crows

"The Ice-Shirt" is a 1990 historical novel by American writer William T. Vollmann. It is the first book in a planned seven-book cycle entitled . (As of 2008, four of the seven books have been published.)

"The Ice-Shirt" is set in the 10th century A.D. and chronicles the arrival of the Norse people to Greenland, Vinland, and the Arctic. The novel blends historical fiction, modern journalism (in a series of interviews with modern residents of Greenland), and the varied mythology of the cultures in question, including Norse, Mi'kmaq, and Inuit. Portions of the novel draw heavily from the "Flateyjarbók", a 14th-century Icelandic manuscript (especially the "Grœnlendinga saga"), as well as other Norse sagas including the "Heimskringla".