Grœnlendinga saga (listen) (spelled Grænlendinga saga in modern Icelandic and translated into English as the Saga of the Greenlanders) is one of the sagas of Icelanders...
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title, the saga mainly chronicles the life and expedition of Thorfinn Karlsefni and his wife Gudrid, also recounted in the Saga of the Greenlanders. For...
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The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts written independently of each other in the early 13th century—The Saga of the Greenlanders (Grænlendinga Saga)...
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Thorfinn Karlsefni (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
expeditions are documented in the Grœnlendinga saga ("Saga of the Greenlanders" henceforth Grl.) and Eiríks saga rauða ("Saga of Eirik the Red" Henceforth Eir.)...
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Vinland (redirect from Battle of Vinland (1003))
consisted of 140 or 160 people according to the Saga of Erik the Red, 60 according to the Saga of the Greenlanders. Still according to the latter, Leif...
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Leif Erikson (redirect from Leif Eriksson the Lucky)
Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, both thought to have been written around 1200, contain different accounts of the voyages to Vinland...
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Freydís Eiríksdóttir (section Saga of the Greenlanders)
Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red. The two sagas offer differing accounts, though Freydís is portrayed in both as a strong woman. The Saga of...
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Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (category Scandinavian explorers of North America)
Iceland. She appears in the Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, known collectively as the Vinland sagas. She and her husband Þorfinnur...
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Norse settlements in Greenland (redirect from Norse Greenlanders)
involvement, the anonymous Grænlendinga saga (Saga of the Greenlanders) and the also anonymous Saga of Erik the Red. But there are also news about the inhabitants...
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Markland (category Saga locations)
Groswater Bay to the southern Labrador Coast. The Saga of the Greenlanders tells that Leif Eriksson set out in 1002 or 1003 to follow the route that was...
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Skræling (category Indigenous peoples of North America)
the 13th century and were thereafter in contact with the Greenlanders. The Greenlanders' Saga and the Saga of Erik the Red, which were written in the...
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"Grænlendinga saga" [Saga of the Greenlanders]. Icelandic Saga Database (in Icelandic). Chapter 2. Retrieved 22 November 2023. "Erik the Red". Britannica...
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L'Anse aux Meadows (category Coves of Canada)
mentioned in the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red, which were written down in the 13th century. Archaeological evidence found at the site...
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historical accounts of the period, such as The Flateyjarbók, The Saga of the Greenlanders, and The Saga of Erik the Red. In 1013 AD, the young Thorfinn works...
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Thorvald Asvaldsson (category Year of birth unknown)
980. According to the "Grænlendinga Saga" (Saga of the Greenlanders), "There was a man called Thorvald, who was the father of Eirik the Red. He and Eirik...
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inhabitation of Greenland in the 14th and 15th centuries, written in the style of an Icelandic or Norse saga. The Greenlanders describes the daily affairs of Nordic...
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Tale of the Greenlanders may refer to: Grœnlendinga saga Grœnlendinga þáttr (I) Grœnlendinga þáttr (II)/Einars þáttr Sokkasonar This disambiguation page...
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Flateyjarbók (redirect from The Flatey Book)
Nornagests þáttr ("the Story of Norna Gest"). Especially important is the Grœnlendinga saga ("History of the Greenlanders"), giving an account of the Vinland colony...
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crew of six to manage. Within the few written Viking records, the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red tell an in-depth story of the Viking...
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Maine penny (redirect from The Maine penny)
hundred years after the last of the Vinland voyages (c. 1000) described in Norse sagas, it is well within the period during which the Norse lived in Greenland...
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is a character mentioned in the Norse Saga of the Greenlanders. He accompanied Leif on his voyage of discovery around the year 1000, and is portrayed...
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Thorvald Eiriksson (category Year of birth unknown)
Vinland sagas; the Greenland Saga and the Saga of Erik the Red. Although differing in various detail, according to both sagas Thorvald was part of an expedition...
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Bjarni Herjólfsson (category Scandinavian explorers of North America)
Bjarni is believed to have been the first European to see North America. The Grœnlendinga saga (Greenlanders Saga) tells that one year he sailed to...
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Despite the loss of contact with the Greenlanders, the Norwegian-Danish crown continued to consider Greenland a possession. Not knowing whether the old Norse...
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Kensington Runestone (category Hoaxes in the United States)
North America in search of renegade Greenlanders, whereupon most of his expedition was killed in Minnesota, leaving just the eight voyagers to return...
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Ancient maritime history (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
any attempts to settle there. However, the Saga of the Greenlanders is usually considered the more reliable of the two. Nugroho, Irawan Djoko (2011). Majapahit...
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Tanfield Valley (category Saga locations)
Iceland. It may be in the region of Helluland, spoken of in the Vinland sagas (Saga of the Greenlanders and Saga of Erik the Red). The Helluland Archaeology...
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Greenlandic Norse (category Languages extinct in the 15th century)
they are sporadically found outside of Greenland, they may suggest travelling Greenlanders. Non-runic evidence on the Greenlandic language is scarce and...
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Since the Bronze Age. ReykjavíkurAkademían. p. 216. ISBN 978-9979-9922-1-9. Keneva Kunz (Translator) The Saga of the Greenlanders, in The Saga of Icelanders...
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in the second half of the eleventh century. Adam is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg...
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