The Vinland sagas : the Icelandic sagas about the first documented voyages across the north Atlantic : The saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's saga /

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, the sagas recount the Icelandic settl...

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Other Authors / Creators:Kunz, Keneva, translator.
Gísli Sigurðsson, 1959- writer of introduction.
Format: Book
Language:English
Old Norse
Language notes:Translated from the Old Icelandic.
Imprint: London ; New York, NY : Penguin, [2008]
Series:Penguin classics.
World of the sagas (Penguin (Firm))
Subjects:
Other uniform title:Grænlendinga saga.
Eiríks saga rauða.