The Vinland Sagas (Penguin Classics)
By Unknown Author.
Description
The bestselling saga of Eirik the Red, Leif the Lucky, and the first American explorersThe all-time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Classics, The Vinland Sagas are published here in a vibrant new translation. Consisting of The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga, they chronicle the adventures of Eirik the Red and his son, Leif Eirikson, who explored North America 500 years before Columbus. Famous for being the first-ever descriptions of North America, and written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red,...
ISBN(s)
0140447768, 9780140447767
