Grœnlendinga saga (listen) (spelled Grænlendinga saga in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas of Icelanders...
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title, the saga mainly chronicles the life and expedition of Thorfinn Karlsefni and his wife Gudrid, also recounted in the Saga of the Greenlanders. For...
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The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts written independently of each other in the early 13th century—The Saga of the Greenlanders (Grænlendinga Saga)...
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Thorfinn Karlsefni (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
expeditions are documented in the Grœnlendinga saga ("Saga of the Greenlanders" henceforth Grl.) and Eiríks saga rauða ("Saga of Eirik the Red" Henceforth Eir.)...
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Vinland (redirect from Battle of Vinland (1003))
consisted of 140 or 160 people according to the Saga of Erik the Red, 60 according to the Saga of the Greenlanders. Still according to the latter, Leif...
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Freydís Eiríksdóttir (section Saga of the Greenlanders)
Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red. The two sagas offer differing accounts, though Freydís is portrayed in both as a strong woman. The Saga of...
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Leif Erikson (redirect from Leif Eriksson the Lucky)
Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, both thought to have been written around 1200, contain different accounts of the voyages to Vinland...
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Norse settlements in Greenland (redirect from Norse Greenlanders)
involvement, the anonymous Grænlendinga saga (Saga of the Greenlanders) and the also anonymous Saga of Erik the Red. But there are also news about the inhabitants...
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Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (category Scandinavian explorers of North America)
Iceland. She appears in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, known collectively as the Vinland sagas. She and her husband Þorfinnur...
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Markland (category Saga locations)
Groswater Bay to the southern Labrador Coast. The Saga of the Greenlanders tells that Leif Eriksson set out in 1002 or 1003 to follow the route that was...
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