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    Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red
    Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red
    Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red
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    Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red

    By Arthur Middleton Reeves and John Sephton

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateOct 18, 2018
    ISBN9788026897491
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