Two Norse sagas—Grænlendinga saga(“Saga of the Greenlanders”) andEiríks saga rauða(“Erik the Red’s Saga”)—offer somewhat different accounts of the first Viking visits to North America, which they calledVinland(land of wild grapes). According to theGrænlendinga saga, the ...
Two Norse sagas—Grænlendinga saga (“Saga of the Greenlanders”) and Eiríks saga rauða (“Erik the Red’s Saga”)—offer somewhat different accounts of the first Viking visits to North America, which they called Vinland (land of wild grapes). According to the Grænlendinga sag...
Two Norse sagas—Grænlendinga saga(“Saga of the Greenlanders”) andEiríks saga rauða(“Erik the Red’s Saga”)—offer somewhat different accounts of the first Viking visits to North America, which they calledVinland(land of wild grapes). According to theGrænlendinga saga, the ...
Two Norse sagas—Grænlendinga saga (“Saga of the Greenlanders”) and Eiríks saga rauða (“Erik the Red’s Saga”)—offer somewhat different accounts of the first Viking visits to North America, which they called Vinland (land of wild grapes). According to the Grænlendinga sag...
Two Norse sagas—Grænlendinga saga(“Saga of the Greenlanders”) andEiríks saga rauða(“Erik the Red’s Saga”)—offer somewhat different accounts of the first Viking visits to North America, which they calledVinland(land of wild grapes). According to theGrænlendinga saga, the ...
Two Norse sagas—Grænlendinga saga(“Saga of the Greenlanders”) andEiríks saga rauða(“Erik the Red’s Saga”)—offer somewhat different accounts of the first Viking visits to North America, which they calledVinland(land of wild grapes). According to theGrænlendinga saga, the ...
400 locations are mentioned. Occasionally the lists of names are enlivened byanecdotesof marriages or feuds or by brief but vivid character sketches; the factual record is not without elements ofmythand imagination. TheLandnámabókserved as the source for many Icelandic sagas. The latest English ...