translated with an introdction by Magnus Magnusson and Herman Pálsson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Penguin Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1965.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
123 pages :
Other Physical Details
maps ;
Dimensions
20 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Penguin classics
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Graenlendinga saga -- Eirik's saga.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.--Publisher description.