Saga of the Greenlanders
Norse epic poem
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Vinland
- In Vinland
…contained in two Norse sagas, Grænlendinga saga (“Saga of the Greenlanders”) and Eiríks saga rauða (“Erik the Red’s Saga”). These two accounts differ somewhat. According to the Grænlendinga saga, Bjarni Herjólfsson became the first European to sight mainland North America when his Greenland-bound ship was blown westward off course about…
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