The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America by Magnus Magnusson, Unknown, Hermann Pálsson

The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America

Íslendingasögur/Sagas of Icelanders

Magnus Magnusson, Unknown, Hermann Pálsson

128 pages first pub 1220 (editions)

nonfiction classics historical history adventurous reflective slow-paced

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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 Grænlendinga Saga an...

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