The Vinland sagas : the Norse discovery of America: Graenlendinga saga and Erik's saga / translated with an introd. by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson.
The Vinland sagas : the Norse discovery of America: Graenlendinga saga and Erik's saga / translated with an introd. by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson.
Alternate Title
:
Graenlendinga saga
Erik's saga
Publication Date
:
1965
Publication Information
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Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin,
Physical Description
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123 p. : maps.
Subject Term
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Manuscripts, Old Norse.
Northmen.
Geographic Term
:
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
Series
:
PENGUIN CLASSICS
PENGUIN CLASSICS.
Additional Contributors
:
Magnusson, Magnus.
Palsson, Hermann.
Summary
:
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 discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780140441543
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Carbonear (ACR) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 948.02 V76 | Checked In |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay (LHV) Melville | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 948.02 V76 | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | 948.02 V76 | NonCirculating |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - Vault | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault | 948.02 V76 | NonCirculating |