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    Saga of the Greenlanders: Including "Erik the Red"
    Saga of the Greenlanders: Including "Erik the Red"
    Saga of the Greenlanders: Including "Erik the Red"
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    Saga of the Greenlanders: Including "Erik the Red"

    By John Sephton and Arthur Middleton Reeves

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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
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateNov 13, 2022
    ISBN8596547389446
    Saga of the Greenlanders: Including "Erik the Red"

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