The Saga Of Eirik The Red

Author : Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141991559

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The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson Pdf

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Sagas
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086251816

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Eirik the Red's Saga by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192835300

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Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas by Anonim Pdf

Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.

Author : Arthur Middleton Reeves,John Sephton
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026897491

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Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red by Arthur Middleton Reeves,John Sephton Pdf

Saga of the Greenlanders and Erik the Red's Saga are the main literary sources of information for the Norse exploration of North America. These sagas relate the colonization of Greenland by Erik the Red and his followers and they describe several expeditions further west led by Erik's children and Þorfinnr "Karlsefni" Þórðarson.

Author : Matthew Leigh Embleton
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798467805504

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The Saga of Erik the Red (Eiríks Saga Rauða) by Matthew Leigh Embleton Pdf

The Saga of Erik the Red (Eiríks Saga Rauða) is one of the two Icelandic Sagas which make up the Vínland Sagas (Vínlandingasögur) which tell the story of the Norse discovery of North America. The story includes the events leading up to Erik the Red being banished from Iceland and discovering Greenland. Following the accidental discovery of lands further west of Greenland, there are a number of expeditions to explore and settle these lands. These stories survived by oral tradition over several centuries before being written down in the 13th century. They are preserved in the Hauksbók, and the Skálholtsbók. This book is designed to be of use to anyone studying or with a keen interest in Old Norse or Old Icelandic, clearly showing how these languages work, and the influence of these languages on English. Both Old Norse and Old Icelandic versions are included. This edition is laid out in three columns, the original text, a literal word-for-word translation, and a modern translation. Also included is a word list with over 1,000 definitions. Also available in this series: The Saga of the Greenlanders (Groenlendinga Saga), The Vínland Sagas (Vínlandingasögur).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1973-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141906980

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The Vinland Sagas by Anonim Pdf

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 the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.

Author : Jane Smilely
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141933269

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The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely Pdf

In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.

Author : Anonymous,J. Sephton,Volundr Lars Agnarsson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1481241915

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The Saga of Erik the Red by Anonymous,J. Sephton,Volundr Lars Agnarsson Pdf

Five-hundred and eleven years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, Eirik Thorwaldsson, or more commonly Eirik the Red, discovered, and explored the rugged coasts of Greenland, only later to lead the first established colony in North America.

Author : Dr Gudbrand Vigfusson Vigfusson
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781907256738

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The Saga of Eirik the Red by Dr Gudbrand Vigfusson Vigfusson Pdf

A GREAT READ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE INTERESTED IN ADVENTURE! This is the Saga of Eirik the Red or Eric the Red. This volume is more saga, or fact, than fiction. Despite this being a fact-based saga there is still plenty of action to enthral, for Eirik the Red and his two sons, Thorstein and Leif, were definitely men of action. It charts how his family first came to Iceland, his birth, his removal from Norway, his discovery of Greenland and the birth of his, more famous son Leif (Ericson/Erickson). It also gives account for time spent in Vinland (Nova Scotia) and gives account of their interaction with and action defending against the people they called the Skrlingar, or, North American Indians. The translators have also supplied the modern geographic names of the area of Nova Scotia where dwellings were built. This volume also charts some of Leif Ericsons life. Also known as Leif the Lucky, he was the second son of Eirik the Red and certainly also displayed the Viking spirit of adventure and exploration. As a young man Leif Ericsson visited Norway, where he converted to Christianity. He was charged with returning to Greenland to convert the populace, but instead sailed further west and is believed to have landed somewhere in Nova Scotia. He spent a year in North America before returning home to Greenland, where he served as governor converting the island to the Christian belief (for a more complete account of Leif's saga try The Thrall of Leif the Lucky also republished by Abela Publishing). The film The Viking (1928) was based on the life story of Leif and incorporates a good deal of authentic Viking history.

Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : HMH
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547539393

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The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown Pdf

The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid’s story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman’s last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the epic tales suggest it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, The Far Traveler reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. It also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her, and illuminates the reasons for its collapse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1439576475

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The Vinland Sagas by Anonim Pdf

The 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 RedÂ'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, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and EirikÂ's son Leif the LuckyÂ's perilous voyages to explore it.

Author : Snorri Sturluson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141915074

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King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson Pdf

This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led to his death and marked the end of an era in which Europe had been dominated by the threat of Scandinavian forces. Despite England's triumph, it also played a crucial part in fatally weakening the English army immediately prior to the Norman Conquest, changing the course of history. Taken from the Heimskringla - Snorri Sturluson's complete account of Norway from prehistoric times to 1177 - this is a brilliantly human depiction of the turbulent life and savage death of the last great Norse warrior-king.

Author : Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487570491

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The Viking Age by Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald Pdf

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through the remarkable range and variety of sources presented as well as the geographical and chronological coverage of the readings. The third edition has been reorganized into fifteen chapters. Many sources have been added, including material on gender and warrior women, and a completely new final chapter traces the continuing cultural influence of the Vikings to the present day. The use of visual material has been expanded, and updated maps illustrate historical developments throughout the Viking Age. The English translations of Norse texts, many of them new to this collection, are straightforward and easily accessible, while chapter introductions contextualize the readings.

Author : Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442605244

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The Vikings and Their Age by Angus A. Somerville,R. Andrew McDonald Pdf

This book, the first in our Companions to Medieval Studies series, is a brief introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Viking Age and provides an essential foundation for study of the period. The companion begins by defining the Viking Age and explores topics such as Viking society and religion. Viking biographies provide students with information on important figures in Viking lore such as Harald Bluetooth, Eirik the Red, Leif Eiriksson, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardaughter, a female Viking traveler. A compelling chapter entitled "How Do We Know About the Vikings?" and a case study on the wandering monks of St. Philibert introduce students to the process of historical inquiry. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of the Vikings and their legacy. Pedagogical resources include a detailed chronology, study questions, a glossary, 4 maps, and 14 images. Text boxes provide information on outsider perceptions of the Vikings, a detailed account of a Viking raid, and a description of a chieftain's dwelling in Arctic Norway. This study also benefits from a multi-disciplinary approach including insights and evidence from such diverse disciplines as archaeology, philology, religion, linguistics, and genetics.

Author : Richard M. Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : America
ISBN : 0903521873

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The Verses in Eric the Red's Saga by Richard M. Perkins Pdf