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The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (Penguin Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780140441543
ISBN: 0140441549
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: May 30, 1965
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Rating:  - Very good but needs to be updated
The Vinland Sagas
The Norse Discovery of America
By Magnusson & Palsson
The Vinland Sagas, like all the Edda's & Sagas, are very difficult to review. The Sagas are what they are, collections of original tales, Myths, family histories & genealogies of Icelandic & Scandinavian origin. They ARE history, good, bad or indifferently, after a thousand years or so, they are history.
Magnusson and Palsson have given us two of the more understandable ... Read More
Rating:  - Well done work
The Vinland Sagas are important in that they provide textual background for the Norse discovery of North America in the 10th-11th centuries. However, they present a number of problems from a historical perspective (inconsistency being one of them). This work does not shrink from these issues and addresses them head-on.
The work provides the Greenlanders' Saga first and most scholars today accept this as the older one. This is followed by the Saga of Erik the Red. This is combined with ... Read More
Rating: - Very good but needs up dated
The Vinland Sagas
The Norse Discovery of America
By Magnusson & Palsson
The Vinland Sagas, like all the Edda's & Sagas, are very difficult to review. The Sagas are what they are, collections of original tales, Myths, family histories & genealogies of Icelandic & Scandinavian origin. They ARE history, good, bad or indifferently, after a thousand years or so, they are history.
Magnusson and Palsson have given us two of the more understandable modern ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Intro, Readable Text
This small book is a delightful combination of an excellent introduction that provides tons of background to the sagas themselves with saga text that's very easy to read and follow.
When reading texts that have their origins so very long ago, I find it quite helpful to get a thorough and easy to understand background on what I'm about to read. The LONG introduction to these texts does just that and I thank the authors for their efforts in putting these texts in perspective for us.
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Rating: - finally, the real deal
Are you also tired of supermarket magazines where just about everyone in the known universe discovers America before poor Columbus? No? You should be. Forget about the Nephites, the Mandingos, the Knights Templar or space aliens from Wherever. Instead, read this: the Vinland Sagas. This is the real deal. As far as we know today, only one Old World people reached America before Columbus: the ancient Scandinavians, also known as the Norsemen, more colloqially known as Vikings.
How do we know? ... Read More
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