Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas write by . This book was released on 1999. Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Selected by Gwyn Jones--the eminent Celtic scholar--for their excellence and variety, these nine Icelandic sagas include "Hen-Thorir," "The Vapnfjord Men," "Thorstein Staff-Struck," "Hrafnkel the Priest of Frey," "Thidrandi whom the Goddesses Slew," "Authun and the Bear," "Gunnlaug Wormtongue," "King Hrolf and his Champions," and the title piece.
The Vinland Sagas
The Vinland Sagas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vinland Sagas write by Leifur Eiricksson. This book was released on 2019-05-23. The Vinland Sagas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.
Eirik the Red's Saga
Eirik the Red's Saga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eirik the Red's Saga write by . This book was released on 1880. Eirik the Red's Saga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Vinland Sagas
The Vinland Sagas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vinland Sagas write by . This book was released on 1973-09-27. The Vinland Sagas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.
The Sagas of the Icelanders
The Sagas of the Icelanders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sagas of the Icelanders write by Jane Smilely. This book was released on 2005-02-24. The Sagas of the Icelanders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary treasures – as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.
