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    Grœnlendinga saga (listen) (spelled Grænlendinga saga in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas...
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    expeditions are documented in the Grœnlendinga saga ("Saga of the Greenlanders" henceforth Grl.) and Eiríks saga rauða ("Saga of Eirik the Red" Henceforth...
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    readings from Hauksbók. Saga of Erik the Red, public domain audiobook at Librivox. Vinland sagas Eiríks saga víðförla Grœnlendinga saga Oleson, T.J. (1979)...
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    colony was soon Christianized. However, the Íslendingabók and the Grœnlendinga saga (Saga of the Greenlanders) unanimously report that at the first settlement...
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  • close of each saga, Grœnlendinga saga ch. 9 and Eiríks saga ch. 14. It is supplemented with further ancestral information from (Eiríks saga ch. 7 and Landnámabók)...
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    According to the Grœnlendinga saga, Karlsefni and the others settled in a place that is referred to only as Vinland, while in Erik the Red's saga they formed...
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  • close of each saga, Grœnlendinga saga ch. 9 and Eiríks saga ch. 14. It is supplemented with further ancestral information from (Eiríks saga ch. 7 and Landnámabók)...
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    and the Island of Ima. The sagas of Norse seafarers to Greenland and Vinland, notably the Grœnlendinga saga and the saga of Erik the Red, have also been...
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    (1897). Eyrbyggja saga. Halle a. S.: M. Niemeyer. pdf Eyrbyggja saga. Brands þáttr ̨orva. Eiríks saga rauða. Grœnlendinga saga. Grœnlendinga þáttr, ed. by...
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    of Ui Corra and Saint Brendan) and the sagas of Norse adventurers (such as the Grœnlendinga saga and the saga of Erik the Red). The peoples of the Iberian...
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    Based on the medieval Íslendingasögur sagas, including the Grœnlendinga saga, this interpretative map of the "Norse World" shows that Norse knowledge of...
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    Vinland (category Saga locations)
    producing the best wine." This etymology is retained in the 13th-century Grœnlendinga saga, which provides a circumstantial account of the discovery of Vinland...
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    to have been the first European to see North America. The Grœnlendinga saga (Greenlanders Saga) tells that one year he sailed to Iceland to visit his parents...
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  • sagas such as the Heimskringla, the novel draws heavily from the Flateyjarbók, a 14th-century Icelandic manuscript (especially the Grœnlendinga saga)...
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    Flateyjarbók (category Kings' sagas)
    Nornagests þáttr ("the Story of Norna Gest"). Especially important is the Grœnlendinga saga ("History of the Greenlanders"), giving an account of the Vinland...
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  • peoples of Greenland and Vinland) reported in the Norse sagas, notably the Grœnlendinga saga and the saga of Erik the Red, which began to filter south around...
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    Canada, discovered by Norsemen as described in the Eiríks saga rauða and Grœnlendinga saga. L'Anse aux Meadows – settlement (carbon dating estimate 990–1050)...
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    Straumfjörð (category Sagas of Icelanders)
    according to the Sagas of Icelanders a fjord in Vinland where Thorfinn Karlsefni set up a temporary settlement. It is described in the Saga of Erik the Red...
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  • Tale of the Greenlanders may refer to: Grœnlendinga saga Grœnlendinga þáttr (I) Grœnlendinga þáttr (II)/Einars þáttr Sokkasonar This disambiguation page...
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    Thorfinn Karlsefni's expedition of ca. 1007 C.E., based on the Grœnlendinga saga and the Eiríks saga rauða. In his 1889 history of Yarmouth, George S. Brown...
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  • Grœnlendinga þáttr ('The Tale of the Greenlanders') is a short story about the exploration of Vinland in North America by Leif Erikson and later Norse...
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  • Grœnlendinga þáttr ('The Tale of the Greenlanders') or Einars þáttr Sokkasonar ('The Tale of Einarr Sokkason') is a short medieval Icelandic tale (þáttr)...
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  • interpolated into the Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason. It is commonly combined and translated with Grœnlendinga þáttr (I) as the Saga of the Greenlanders. English...
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  • Eiríks þáttr rauða Geirmundar þáttr Gísls þáttr Illugasonar Grœnlendinga þáttr (I) Grœnlendinga þáttr (II)/Einars þáttr Sokkasonar Gull-Ásu-Þórðar þáttr...
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