The Vinland sagas : the Norse discovery of America / translated with an introdction by Magnus Magnusson and Herman Pálsson.

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,...

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Other Authors: Magnússon, Magnús, Hermann Pálsson, 1921-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Icelandic
Published: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1965.
Series:Penguin classics.
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