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

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PartNumber	A-254-949	Manufacturer	Viking Pr
Brand	Penguin Classics	Editor	Magnusson, Magnus
Item Weight	0.2 Pounds	ItemDimensions	5.25 x 0.5 x 8Inches
NumberOfItems	1	binding	Paperback
Amazon Category	Books » Literature & Fiction » Genre Literature & Fiction » Family Saga Fiction	Amazon Category	Books » Literature & Fiction » Poetry » Regional & Cultural Poetry » European Poetry » Norse & Icelandic Sagas
Amazon Category	Books » Literature & Fiction » Mythology & Folk Tales » Mythology	Amazon Category	Books » Reference » Foreign Language Reference
EAN	9780140441543	ISBN	0140441549

Weight	0.20 lbs

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