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Author : Tamara Goranson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008455705
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...
Author : Robert Hodanko
Publisher : Robert Hodanko
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
At the beginning of the High Middle Ages, Europe was recovering from the chaotic Early Middle Ages coupled with a period of colder climate. Learning, agriculture, trade, population, urbanization and state power were on the rise. Since the 870s, Iceland had been permanently settled by Norse emigrants from Europe. Around the year 985 or 986, a new wave of migration led by Eirik the Red arrived to Greenland from overpopulated Iceland. The same year Bjarni Herjolfsson was blown off his course to Greenland and sighted unknown lands in the west. About 15 years later began the most exciting chapter of European explorations and discoveries in the west, started by Leif Eiriksson's voyage and exploration of Vinland. Five centuries ahead of the Age of Discovery, Leif visited North America and left there a base which was used by explorers who followed. Their voyages and explorations were later vividly described in the Vinland Sagas. The fact that these first European explorers were able to find Leif's base in North America, without maps and tools for precise navigation, is striking. It is evidence that it was not difficult to find Vinland... The Vinland Sagas excited many of their readers. Likewise, seeming or real disharmony of their records puzzled them. When I read The Vinland Sagas for the first time several years ago, I was impressed by them but did not understand their message. When I read The Vinland Sagas for the second time in December 2013, I was impressed by them again, but this time I was determined to make greater effort to understand their message. I approached the Sagas as records capturing testimonies of Vinland voyages and explorations that were handed down for generations before they were written. When I encountered the bull episode recorded in the Sagas, I realized that it can be harmonized and explained. Likewise I came to the conclusion that all of the recorded Vinland voyages can be harmonized and explained. I read passages of the Sagas over and over, made notes of the information, and harmonized them. I was not writing book then. I simply wanted to understand where the Norsemen sailed, where they settled, and what places they visited. With The Vinland Sagas, Webster's Dictionary, maps, and my basic harmony of the Vinland voyages, on December 12, 2013, I identified a place for Leif's base in Vinland. The location seems to be in internal harmony with information in The Vinland Sagas as well as in external harmony with maps and information that I was able to find on the internet. Based on my notes, I wrote this book, which should be understood as a possible interpretation and explanation of The Vinland Sagas. I enjoyed writing this book, and I hope that you will enjoy reading it.
Author : Matthías Þórðarson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015035584039
History of the discovery of the American continent by Icelanders or Greenlanders in the years 1000 to 1006.
Author : John Richard Lane Anderson
Publisher : New York : Funk & Wagnalls
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015016750666
Author : Matthias Thórdarson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:467265707
Author : Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141991559
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 : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Morrow
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015001528556
Author : Tamara Goranson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008455729
‘Once again, Goranson channels the epics of the past to take the reader on a journey filled with adventure, danger, and forbidden love ... I would highly recommend this book to fans of historical fiction, Viking tales, and mythology!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141906980
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 : Matthias Thordarson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0282575049
Excerpt from The Vinland Voyages The striking upheaval of folk energy known as the Viking Age is the background of our story. The books about that period increase, but we grow thereby more in wealth of theory than of fact. It is only a slight overstatement to say that the more we know about the doings of the time the less confident we are about the theories that explain the way things were done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : W. Hodding Carter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780345420046
Fascinated since childhood with Leif Eriksson’s triumphant sailing voyage a thousand years ago from Greenland to North America, Hodding Carter could not shake his admittedly crazy idea of reenacting Eriksson’s epic journey in a precise replica of the precarious Viking cargo ship known as a knarr. This extraordinary book is the account of how he pulled it off. By turns thrilling and slapstick, sublime and outrageous, A Viking Voyage is an unforgettable adventure story that will take you to the heart of some of the most magnificent, unspoiled territory on earth, and even deeper, to the heart of a journey like no other. A celebration of the people and places Carter visits and a treasure-trove of fascinating Viking lore, here is an unforgettable story of friendship and teamwork–and the thrill of accomplishing a goal that once seemed impossible.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1439576475
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 : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848549401
In his fourth novel, George Mackay Brown takes us to an Orkney torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Set in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a journey even greater than the first great voyage of his life, the one to Vinland.
Author : Earle Rice Jr.
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545748411
Introduces children to the life of Viking adventurer Leif Eriksson chronicling his famed voyage in which he sailed to Newfoundland where he established the first European colony in North America
Author : Tryggvi J. Oleson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005541
Volume I of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. Professor Oleson rediscovers the journeys of the Norse people from Iceland towards Arctic Canada, five hundred years before Columbus’ exploits. These Christian Europeans settled with Indigenous Canadians, building stone settlements, trapping and exporting the prized white falcon and polar bear to the courts of medieval Europe, and producing the unique Thule people, ancestors of the modern Inuit. In fact, Professor Oleson’s research has traced the tall white “Tunnit” people of Inuit mythology to these Norse settlers. Despite the eventual fading of contact with Europe, the Norse had built an irrefutable North Atlantic route which explorers and traders of the 17th century would follow in their pursuit of the riches of Asia and their creation of a lasting bond with Europe. First published in 1963, Tryggvi J. Oleson’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
