The Vinland Sagas (Penguin Classics)
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Translator: Keneva KunzIntroduction: Gisli Sigurdsson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-29
ISBN: 0140447768
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary: 5 Stars
Gisli Sigurdsson provides an informative introduction to The Saga of the Greenlanders & Eirik the Red's Saga, and Keneva Kunz provides an accessible translation of the sagas. There are useful appendices showing diagrams of the likely exploration routes, family trees, ships, and farms the Vikings associated with these sagas would have used.
It was fun to finally read these sagas. I always knew that "Leif Landed First" -- that Scandinavians were the first to discover North America and interact with the indigenous people of North America back in 1000 A.D. However, actually reading the sagas really drives home just how comfortable the Vikings must have been with sea travel. It was nothing for them to constantly move about year to year from Norway to Iceland to Ireland to Greenland to Vinland etc., and various combinations thereof. I am duly impressed.
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