
The Vinland SagasNearly five hundred years before Christopher Columbus set forth across the Atlantic, Norse people colonized Iceland and then Greenland. According to the two works included here, the Graenlendiga Saga and Eirik's Saga, they went further, and settled, if briefly, a territory called Vinland that lay beyond Greenland. This can only have been North America, but for centuries doubt was poured on the Norse achievement, and the sagas dismissed as legends. Archaeology has now proved that the Norse did settle in North America, but the location of Vinland proves elusive. This is partly due to contradictions in the sagas, both of which are works of literature, not history. And the translators here, Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson, had come to believe that Vinland as described in the sagas was in any case a fabulous literary construct.
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An amazing insight into how people lived 1000 years ago. Whilst sometimes the structure of the stories can be a bit clunky, I found these two sagas a riveting read. Given that most of the old Norse sagas are written accounts of stories that were orally passed down through the generations, it is a testimony to Icelandic culture that such stories are remembered with any detail at all. According to my history buff friends this is the easiest to read of all of the sagas.
With an interesting introduction that discusses the journey of these two sagas from their origins right up to the current edition, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in history of the Nordic world.
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