Saga of the Greenlanders

What name did Leif give to the grape-rich land? Answer, Vinland.

According to the saga of the Greenlanders and the saga of Eric the Red, Leif named the region Vinland, often interpreted as Wineland.

Scholars associate it broadly with parts of Atlantic Canada, possibly around the Gulf of St. Lawrence where wild grapes can grow...

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Which two sagas recount Leif Erikson's voyage? Answer.

The Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red.

Written in the 13th century, these sagas provide overlapping but sometimes differing accounts of Norse exploration.

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Introduction to the Saga of the Greenlanders.

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The Saga of the Greenlanders, author unknown.

Translated by Arthur Middleton Reeves, 1856-1891.

Introduction.

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Introduction to the Saga of the Greenlanders.

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The Saga of the Greenlanders, author unknown.

Translated by Arthur Middleton Reeves, 1856-1891.

Introduction The Wineland History of the Flotty Book The Flotty Book is the most extensive and most perfect of Icelandic manuscripts.

And as I mentioned with the, quote, "Northern islands of the world" and the Tuatha Dé Danann that resided there for a bit, there is a link to some of the Norse world, specifically with Iceland, the island in the North Atlantic that we primarily have discussed as being the destination of many of the Norwegians who fled King Harald Fairhair's rule in Norway, with the actual Norse settlement in Iceland being described in the Landnámabók, or the Book of Settlements.

On top of that, we have sagas, specifically the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Vinland sagas, which gives us legendary, but also maybe historical accounts of the settling of Greenland and then North America, accounts which in the last couple of centuries have been corroborated via archeological finds.

But to avoid going back to the Norse fully and stick with our Tales of Ireland series, today I'm gonna be just discussing an Irishman who, according to Irish tradition, was a monk, an abbot, and he would become a saint, and perhaps one of the most famous explorers that Ireland has ever produced, potentially sailing the North Atlantic centuries before the Norse would have on their longships.

That Irishman is St. Brendan the Navigator.

Thorsten then sat up and asked, Where is Gudrid? I want to tell Gudrid her fate, to make it easier for her to resign herself to my death.

That's Richard reading from the Saga of the Greenlanders, which tells the tale of an exceptional woman who wandered so far across the globe in the Viking Age that she was given the name Gudrid the Far Traveller.

This is the third of our episodes on the Viking explorers to the west, from Eric the Red, who founded the settlements in Greenland, to his son Leif the Lucky, the first European to set foot in North America, and now to Gudrid the Far Traveller.

In fulfillment of this prophecy, Gudrith would remarry and with her next husband would lead a party of Viking men and women across the waters of the North Atlantic to build a settlement in modern-day Canada, an experience that Gudrith barely survived and which is documented in the saga of Eric the Red and the saga of the Greenlanders.

And all of these events took place 500 years before Columbus set out to find the new world.

Hello Richard.

So what happens? Does Gudrith join this family and its expeditionary nature?

That's absolutely what happens.

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Introduction to the Saga of the Greenlanders.

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The Saga of the Greenlanders, author unknown.

Translated by Arthur Middleton Reeves, 1856 to 1891.

Introduction.

Leif was a large and powerful man, and of a most imposing bearing, a man of sagacity, and a very just man in all things.

part two of the saga of the greenlanders author unknown translated by arthur middleton reeves eighteen fifty six to eighteen ninety one this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by expatriate in bangor maine part two life the lucky finds men upon a scariot sea it was discovered one evening that one of their company was missing and this proved to be tyrker the german leif was sorely troubled by this for tyrker had lived with leif and his father for a long time and had been very devoted to leif when he was a child leif severely reprimanded his companions and prepared to go in search of him taking twelve men with him they had proceeded but a short distance from the house when they were met by tyrker whom they received most cordially leif observed at once that his foster-father was in lively spirits tyrker had a prominent forehead restless eyes small features was diminutive in stature and rather a sorry-looking individual withal but was nevertheless a most capable handicraftsman leif addressed him and asked wherefore art thou so belated foster-father mine and astray from the others in the beginning tyrkir spoke for some time in german rolling his eyes and grinning and they could not understand him but after a time he addressed them in the northern tongue i did not go much further than you and yet i have something of novelty to relate i have found vines and grapes is this indeed true foster-father said leif of a certainty it is true quoth he for i was born where there is no lack of either grapes or vines they slept the night through and on the morrow leif said to his shipmates we will now divide our labours and each day will either gather grapes or cut vines and fell trees so as to obtain a cargo of these for my ship they acted upon this advice and it is said that their after-boat was filled with grapes a cargo sufficient for the ship was cut and when the spring came they made their ship ready and sailed away and from its products leif gave the land a name and called it wine land they sailed out to sea and had fair winds until they sighted greenland and the fells below the glaciers then one of the men spoke up and said why do you steer the ship so much into the wind leif answers i have my mind upon my steering but on other matters as well do ye not see anything out of the common they replied that they saw nothing strange i do not know says leif whether it is a ship or a skerry that i see now they saw it and said that it must be a skerry but he was so much keener of sight than they that he was able to discern men upon the skerry i think it best to tack says leif so that we may draw near to them that we may be able to render them assistance if they should stand in need of it and if they should not be peaceably disposed we shall still have better command of the situation than they they approached the skerry and lowered their sail cast anchor and launched a second small boat which they had brought with them tyrkir inquired who was the elder of the party he replied that his name was tori and that he was a norseman but what is thy name leif gave his name art thou a son of eric the red of bratehild says he leif responded that he was it is now my wish says leif to take you all into my ship and likewise so much of your possessions as the ship will hold this offer was accepted and with their ship thus laden they held away to eric's firth and sailed until they arrived at bratehild having discharged the cargo leif invited tory with his wife gudrid and three others to make their home with him and procured quarters for the other members of the crew both for his own and tory's men leif rescued fifteen persons from the skerry he was afterward called leif the lucky leif had now goodly store both of property and honour there was serious illness that winter in thori's party and thori and a great number of his people died eric the red also died that winter there was now much talk about leif's wineland journey and his brother thorvald held that the country had not been sufficiently explored thereupon leif said to thorvald if it be thy will brother thou mayest go to wineland with my ship but i wish the ship first to fetch the wood which tori had upon the skerry and so it was done thorvald goes to wineland now thorvald with the advice of his brother leif prepared to make this voyage with thirty men They put their ship in order and sailed out to sea, and there is no account of their voyage before their arrival at Leif's Booths in Wineland.

They laid up their ship there and remained there quietly during the winter, supplying themselves with food by fishing.

In the spring, however, Thorvald said that they should put their ship in order and that a few men should take the afterboat and proceed along the western coast and explore the region thereabouts during the summer.

End of Part 2.

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part three of the saga of the greenlanders author unknown part three of the wine-land voyages of thorfinn and his companions that same summer a ship came from norway to greenland the skipper's name was thorfinn karlsefni he was a son of thord horsehead and a grandson of snorri the son of thord of holdi Thorfinn Carlsefni, who was a very wealthy man, passed the winter at Bradehild with Leif Erikson.

He very soon set his heart upon Gudrid, and sought her hand in marriage.