One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance d...
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In her new book, Viking Myths & Sagas, Rosalind Kerven reveals how the Vikings’ favourite tales included myths, heroic legends, folk tales, and family and local ...
In her new book, Viking Myths & Sagas, Rosalind Kerven reveals how the Vikings’ favourite tales included myths, heroic legends, folk tales, and family and local ...
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