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Grœnlendinga saga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Helluland is the name given to one of the three lands discovered by Leif Eriksson sometime around 1000 AD on the North Atlantic coast of North America. Helluland was characterized in the Icelandic sagas (the Eiríks saga rauða and the Grœnlendinga saga) as a land of flat stones, or ground of flat...
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Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red is a saga on the Norse exploration of North-America. In the saga, the events that led to Eric the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Ericson's discovery of Vinland the Good, after his longship...
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Whatever Happened to Úlfs saga Uggasonar? : Andrew Wawn (University of Leeds) Though this conflict is far from being central to Eyrbyggja saga, According to Eiríks saga rauða ch. 4 (ÍF IV, 208) she was a Christian, and Grœnlendinga saga ch. 8 adds that after he died she ended her days as an anchoress (ÍF IV, 269)
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Groenlendinga saga:According to the Groenlendinga saga (Grænlendinga saga; “Tale of the Greenlanders”) in the Flateyjarbók (“Songbook”), considered more reliable than the Eiríks saga by many modern scholars, Leif learned of Vinland from the Icelander Bjarni...
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FreeWikiMedia is your place with tons of articles, do not miss it. The saga begins at the time of Iceland's settlement, There is internal evidence that the author of the saga knew of the Laxdæla saga and Egils saga, and it was written fairly late in the history of saga writing.
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For those who are saga junkies be aware that the Sagas of the Icelanders (Islendasogur) is only the Icelandic family sagas and not any of the Bishop Sagas nor Heroic/Mythic Sagas e.g., Saga of Hralf Kraki. If you like this set then get Njal's Saga. The saga's in this collection are one of a kind.
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FreeWikiMedia is your place with tons of articles, do not miss it. Although the saga is only preserved whole in later manuscripts, Aud, Gisli’s wife, remains loyal throughout the saga and refuses to divulge the location of her husband, even when offered three hundred silver pieces for her knowledge.
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Groenlendinga Saga.’ Rafn’s conclusion. that the length of day as observed during. winter solstice in Vinland was nine hours,
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Egill Skallagrímsson in a 17th century manuscript of Egils SagaEgils saga is an epic Icelandic saga possibly by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241 AD), who may have w Egils saga is an epic Icelandic saga possibly by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241 AD), The saga is centered on the life of Egill Skallagrímsson, an Icelandic farmer,
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