The Vinland Sagas; The Icelandic Sagas about the First Documented Voyages across the North Atlantic Paperback - 2008
by Kunz, Keneva [trans.]
- Used
- Paperback
The all -time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Classics, The Vinland Sagas arepublished here in a vibrant new translation. Consisting of The Saga of the Greenlanders andEirik the Red's Saga, they chronicle the adventures of Eirik the Red and his son, Leif Eirikson,who explored North America 500 years before Columbus. Famous for being the first-everdescriptions of North America, and written down in the early thirteenth century, they recountthe Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaringadventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik's son Leif the Lucky's perilous voyages toexplore it.
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- Title The Vinland Sagas; The Icelandic Sagas about the First Documented Voyages across the North Atlantic
- Author Kunz, Keneva [trans.]
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, New York, New York
- Date 2008
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 076425
- ISBN 9780140447767 / 0140447768
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 0.4 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Library of Congress subjects America - Discovery and exploration - Norse, Leiv Eiriksson
- Dewey Decimal Code 970.013
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