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The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics)

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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 Grænlendinga 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.
Format:
Pages:
124 pages
Publication:
1965
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0140441549
ISBN13:
9780140441543
kindle Asin:
0140441549

The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics)

Unknown
3.80/5 (1163 ratings)
Read Download
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 Grænlendinga 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.
Format:
Pages:
124 pages
Publication:
1965
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0140441549
ISBN13:
9780140441543
kindle Asin:
0140441549

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