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The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America
The Vinland Sagas The Norse Discovery of America
Author: Anonymous, Magnus Magnusson (Translator), Hermann Palsson (Translator)
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140441543
ISBN-10: 0140441549
Publication Date: 5/30/1965
Pages: 128
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3.7 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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Fine book giving the original stories not rewrites and "analysis" . ( ok so they were worked on in the middle ages). Recomended for anyone interested in this history.


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