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101: 445:, an illegitimate daughter of Erik the Red, then emerges from her hut, heavily pregnant, and pursues them, berating them as cowards; when the Skrælings surround her, she pulls a sword from a dead man's hand, bares one breast, and slaps the sword against it, which frightens the Skrælings into leaving. The group realize that some of the attacking force were an illusion. Having lost two of their number, they decide the place is not safe and sail back north to Straumfjord, on the way encountering five sleeping men with containers of deer 327:
converts many people, including his mother, who builds a church, but not his father Erik, as a result of which Erik's wife leaves him. His brother Thorstein then organizes an expedition to explore the new country. In addition to both brothers, the group is to include their father, but Erik falls from his horse and is injured riding to the ship. (One of the two versions suggests he nonetheless goes.) The expedition is unsuccessful; after being blown in different directions by storms all summer, they return to Eiriksfjord in the fall.
467:, born in the new land, is three years old when they leave. In Markland, they encounter five Skrælings; the three adults sink into the ground and escape, but they capture the two boys and baptize them; they learn from them that the Skrælings are cave-dwellers ruled by two kings named Avaldamon and Avaldidida, and that a nearby country is inhabited by people who go about in white, carrying poles with cloth attached, and shouting; the saga writer says that this was thought to be the legendary 1125: 1108: 385:, in mountainous country with tall grass; an island at the mouth of the fjord is full of nesting birds. Despite having brought grazing animals, they are unprepared for the harshness of winter there, and run short of food. Thorhall the Hunter, a pagan friend and servant of Erik's, then disappears and they find him after three days lying on a cliff-top, mumbling and pinching himself. Soon a strange kind of 294:(warding songs); Gudrid, although reluctant because she is Christian (her father has left while the heathen practice is going on), learned them from her foster mother and does so beautifully. Thorbjorg prophesies that the famine will soon end and that Gudrid will make two good marriages, one in Greenland and a second in Iceland, from which will come a great family. In the spring Thorbjorn sails to 33: 194: 437:(refusing to also trade swords and spears) until the Skrælings take fright and leave at the sight of a bull that has got loose. Three weeks later they return in still larger numbers, whirling the sticks counterclockwise rather than clockwise and howling. Battle is joined, and the Skrælings use something like a 574:
had accidentally sighted land to the west approximately fifteen years before Leif organized an exploratory voyage. This last is thought to stem from the saga having been written to incorporate a story that Leif evangelized in Greenland on behalf of Olaf Tryggvason, which appears to have been invented
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The larger expedition, led by Karlsefni, discovers a place they call Hop ("tidal river"), where a river flows through a lake to the sea; the country is rich in wildlife, fishing is excellent, wheat and grapes grow plentifully, and it does not snow that winter. They have a first encounter with natives
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when he returns to Greenland. On the return voyage, storms take him to an unknown land where he discovers wild wheat, vines, maple trees (and in one version of the saga, very large trees). Leif also rescues shipwrecked sailors, whom he looks after and converts to Christianity. Back in Greenland, he
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Thorbjorn, a son of a well-born thrall who had accompanied Aud the Deep-Minded and been given land by her, has a daughter named Gudrid. One autumn, he proudly rejects a marriage proposal for her from Einar, a wealthy merchant who is also the son of a freedman. However, he is in financial
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In spring, most of the expedition decide to go south in search of Vinland. Thorhall wants to go north and is joined on one ship by nine others, but the wind drives the ship east across the Atlantic to Ireland, where they are beaten and made slaves and Thorhall dies.
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that shoots him in the groin with a bow and arrow. Karlsefni buries him in Vinland, in the area of what is present day Nova Scotia, Canada. The ship returns to Straumfjord, but amid increasing dissension they decide to return home. Karlsefni's son
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and a promontory they call Kjalarness. They put in at a bay and have two fast-running Scottish thralls, gifts from King Olaf to Leif Erikson, scout the land and they bring back grapes and wheat. They overwinter inland from a fjord that they call
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start a landslide that destroys a farm, leading to a feud that results in Erik's banishment first from the district and then from Iceland; he sails in search of land that had been reported to lie to the north, and explores and names
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difficulties; the following spring he announces he will leave Iceland and go to Greenland. The ship carrying his family and friends encounters bad weather and they reach Greenland only in autumn, after half have died of disease.
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and blood, whom they kill on the assumption they are outlaws. Karlsefni then takes one ship north in search of Thorhall, finding a desolate forested area where they lay up on the bank of a river that flows westward to the sea.
495:, but can carry only half those aboard. At Bjarni's suggestion, they draw lots, but on request he gives up his seat in the boat to a young Icelander. Bjarni and the rest left on the ship drown; those in the boat reach land. 541:, it is closer in subject matter to medieval travel narratives than to either the sagas about families and regions of Iceland or those that are biographies of one person, and also unusual in its focus on a woman, Gudrid. 606:
as described in the scene with Thorbjorg, but is often described as unreliable. One scholar has described it as "a polemical attack on the pagan practices still supposedly prevalent around the year 1000 in Greenland".
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Thorstein marries Gudrid, but soon after dies in an epidemic at the farm where they are living with the joint owner, another Thorstein, and his wife Sigrid. Shortly before his death, Sigrid, who has died, rises as a
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Thorfinn Karlsefni, a wealthy Icelandic merchant, visits Greenland as part of a trading party in two ships. They spend the winter at Brattahlid and assist Erik the Red in providing a magnificent
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and tries to climb into bed with him. After his death, he himself reanimates and asks to speak to Gudrid; he tells her to end the Greenland Christian practise of burying people in
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After a year and a half in Greenland, Karlsefni and Gudrid return to Iceland, where they have a second son; their grandchildren become the parents of three bishops.
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A group of 160 people in two ships, including Karlsefni and other Icelanders but mostly Greenlanders, set out to find the land to the west, now dubbed
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describes only one expedition, led by Karlsefni, and has combined into it those Erik's son Thorvald and daughter Freydis, which are recounted in the
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Famine is raging in Greenland that winter; Thorkel, the prominent farmer with whom Thorbjorn's group is staying, asks a wandering
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washes up on-shore; the meat sickens them all, and then Thorhall claims credit for it as an answer to his making a poem for
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The ship with the rest of the expedition, under another Icelander, Bjarni Grimolfsson, is blown off-course into either the
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or the sea west of Ireland, depending on the saga version, where it is attacked by marine worms and starts to sink. The
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Eirik the Red's Saga: A Translation Read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, January 12, 1880
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The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America
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and to bury him at the church, blames recent hauntings on the farm overseer, Gardi, whose body he says should be
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Thorfinn Karlsefni and those with him settle in a place that is referred to simply as Vinland. Conversely, the
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version appears to be a faithful but somewhat careless copy of the original. Although classified as one of the
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and his assistants are thought to have revised the text, making it less colloquial and more stylish, while the
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in his now lost Latin life of King Olaf (c. 1200), in order to add another country to the list of those
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Magnusson and Pálsson, "Introduction", pp. 32–35, citing Jón Jóhannesson, "Aldur Grænlendinga Sögu",
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contains an unusual amount of pagan practise, sorcery, and ghost stories. It has been used as a source on
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often associates the same events, such as Erik's fall from his horse, with different voyages than the
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The Saga of Eric the Red, also Called the Saga of Thorfinn Karlsefni and Snorri Thorbrandsson
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The Saga of Eric the Red, also Called the Saga of Thorfinn Karlsefni and Snorri Thorbrandsson
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There have been numerous translations of the saga, some of the most prominent of which are:
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feast; Karlsefni then asks to marry Gudrid, and the feast is extended as a wedding feast.
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The Finding of Wineland the Good: The History of the Icelandic Discovery of America
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The Finding of Wineland the Good: The History of the Icelandic Discovery of America
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to hurl a large, heavy sphere over the Norsemen's heads, causing them to retreat.
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The Skrælings return in a larger group and the Norse trade red cloth for animal
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Despite its title, the saga mainly chronicles the life and expedition of
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Her hefr upp sǫgu þeirra Þorfinnz Karlsefnis oc Snorra Þorbrandzsonar
858:, Islandica 1, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Libraries, 1908, 422: 373: 345: 315: 252: 170: 49: 37: 645:(London: Penguin, 2001), pp. 653–74. Apparently translates the 1134: 1117: 904: 438: 377: 227: 182: 61: 57: 1001:
Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
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Sverrir Tómasson, "Old Icelandic Prose", in: Daisy Neijmann, ed.,
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The saga with standardized Old Norse spelling at heimskringla.no
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sound; the Norsemen display a white shield as a sign of peace.
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wrote that title in the blank space at the top of the saga in
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by the king; as a result of incorporating this episode, the
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Icelandic saga about the Norse exploration of North America
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Graphical description of the different sailing routes to
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is resistant, having been treated with tar made of seal
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The saga with standardized modern Icelandic spelling
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Bibliography of the Icelandic Sagas and Minor Tales
458:Thorvald, traveling with Karlsefni, is killed by a 852:Þorfinns saga karlsefnis ok Snorra Þorbrandssonar" 64:) travelled by different Viking characters in the 1102:A treatment of the nationality of Leifr Eiríksson 934:The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America 701:text (which Reeves refers to in the apparatus as 641:Kunz, Keneva (trans.), "Erik the Red's Saga", in 471:, and one version adds that that was also called 1472: 734:(Liverpool: Marples, 1880), available online at 705:), though the text does draw some readings from 755: 749: 743: 722: 716: 706: 696: 672: 666: 646: 633: 627: 532: 522: 516: 394: 289: 160: 149: 147:. For this reason it was formerly also called 1156: 822:. Vol. I (1000–1700) (online ed.). 602:and belief, in particular on the practice of 591:, which apparently predates Gunnlaug's work. 372:. The wind carries them to a place they call 306:This chapter introduces Erik the Red's sons, 173:and the preaching of Christianity by his son 610: 742:. Passages in square brackets are based on 1163: 1149: 842: 840: 192: 31: 1170: 1011:, p. 265 on the seid ceremony; by 544:The saga has numerous parallels to the 14: 1473: 837: 811: 768:, public domain audiobook at Librivox. 1144: 622:(trans.), "Eirik the Red's Saga", in 738:(closer to the printed version) and 643:The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection 1546:Norse colonization of North America 1536:Cultural depictions of Leif Erikson 1531:Cultural depictions of Erik the Red 816:. 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(trans.), 515:, in the 14th-century 202: 185:was blown off course. 79: 1526:Viking Age in Ireland 1521:Scandinavian Scotland 1120:(Sephton Translation) 910:Store norske leksikon 846:Halldór Hermannsson, 226:left Ireland for the 196: 35: 1481:Viking Age in Canada 1358:Þorsteins saga hvíta 1137:(Reeves Translation) 1130:Saga of Erik the Red 1113:Eirik the Red's Saga 1081:North Ludlow Beamish 1068:Saga of Erik the Red 973:, pp. 127, 135. 785:Eiríks saga víðförla 765:Saga of Erik the Red 596:Saga of Erik the Red 585:Saga of Erik the Red 564:Saga of Eric the Red 556:Saga of Eric the Red 513:Saga of Erik the Red 393:, whom he calls his 342:unconsecrated ground 85:Saga of Erik the Red 70:Saga of Erik the Red 1486:Sagas of Icelanders 1233:Finnboga saga ramma 1208:Droplaugarsona saga 1172:Sagas of Icelanders 905:"Eirik Raudes saga" 848:"Eiríks saga rauða 539:Sagas of Icelanders 220:Aud the Deep-Minded 124:(14th century) and 1496:13th-century books 1419:Contemporary sagas 1085:Rasmus B. 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Index

Eiríks saga rauða

Greenland
Vinland
Newfoundland
Helluland
Baffin Island
Markland
Labrador
Icelandic Sagas
Saga of the Greenlanders
Old Norse
listen
Icelandic saga
Norse exploration of North America
Hauksbók
Skálholtsbók
Thorfinn Karlsefni
Gudrid
Saga of the Greenlanders
Árni Magnússon
Erik the Red
Greenland
Leif Erikson
Vinland
longship

Dublin
Olaf the White
Aud the Deep-Minded

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