" Blue-shirt (
in Inuktitat, the Inuit language), or Mykla Jokull, now known as Gunnbjorn's Peak (12,500 feet)--the great metaphorical centerpiece in William T. Vollmann's saga-like novel
--is the great glacier in Greenland used as a landmark by Erik the Red in sailing west from Snaefellsness. "
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