About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Edition: (no date) 25th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, UK
ISBN-13:9780140441543ISBN:0140441549
Description: (reprints 1963). 123pp. maps. Lists and Tables. No creasing down a straight spine. Covers show light wear only. A vg or better copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 29/07/2004
ISBN-13:9780140441543ISBN:0140441549
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1965
ISBN-13:9780140441543ISBN:0140441549
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Slight use wear, SPINE n PAGES CRISP n TIGHT-LIKE NEW. Text in English, Icelandic. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Rep. Graenlendinga Saga and Eirik's Saga. "The two medieval Icelandic sagas translated in this volume tell one of the most fascinating stories in the history of exploration-the discovery of America by Norsemen, five centuries before Christopher Columbus. " Pp.123/4(ads), 4 maps. Pbk. VG. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780140441543ISBN:0140441549
Description: Published by Penguin Classics in 2004. Paperback. Number of pages: 128. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY Ex-library book (usual stamps and marks). Corners bumped. Hinges cracked internally. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1965-05-30
ISBN-13:9780140441543ISBN:0140441549
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Edition: NEW IMPRESSION
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, UK
ISBN-13:9780140441543ISBN:0140441549
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"I was prompted to read this by my purchase of a copy of the famous Vinland Map, the first map of 'the World'. I thought I'd check out the Norse expedition, and discovered it interesting, but not that significant."
By Pete,
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"I'm being generous here, giving this 3 stars. This Penquin Classic only reads for around 100 pages. The first 50ish contains Magnus Magnusson's Introduction, and that was the best part of the book. Magnus writes of the two Vinland Saga's, their dates, their origins and the contemporary histories of Norway, Iceland, Greenland and the British Isles. He also includes the archaeological discoveries that back up the saga stories. So...in 985, as Forkbeard was cuninge in Denmark, the year perhaps Cnut was born, Olaf Tryggvason not King of Norway for another decade, Aethelred was unready in England, getting married that year. Eirik the Red was colonizing Greenland, when Bjarni Herjolfsson pipped C.C. by four hundred years and maybe discovered New Brunswick. Halu micel Vikinga! Douglas and Curtis just don't make it."
"Now this was a pretty cool book. The descriptions of the native Americans are unmistakable, the viking definitely made it to America before Columbus."
"kickass stories of the norse settlement of north america circa 1000. the best thing about these sagas (they don't have quite the poetry of, say, Egil's) is their blending of historical fact with myth. the norse landing in newfoundland around this time is archaeologically supported, but plenty of magic and violence and weirdness crept into the account by the time it was set down in the Vinland Sagas 200 years or so after the fact. i imagine (without really knowing) that this is the earliest known incidence of the americas in written literature."
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