Vinland - Gr Nlendinga Saga, Tyrker, Leifsbudir (Paperback)

Chapters: Gr nlendinga Saga, Tyrker, Leifsbudir. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen, about the year 1000 CE. There is a consensus among scholars that the Vikings did reach North America, approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus. In 1960 archaeological evidence of the only known Norse settlement in North America (outside of Greenland) was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This proved conclusively the Vikings' pre-Columbian discovery of North America. Recent archaelogical studies found also that this exact site is not the Vinland of the Norse accounts in its entirety, but was the entrance to a larger region called Vinland by the Norse. Leiv EirikssonDiscovery of AmericaChristian Krogh (1893) The name Vinland has been interpreted in two ways: traditionally as Vinland ("wine-land") and more recently as Vinland (meadow- or pasture-land). The earliest etymology of "Vinland" is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th Century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis ("Description of the Northern Islands"): "Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine." (Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes). The implication is that the first element is Old Norse vin (Latin vinum), "wine." This explanation is essentially repeated in the 13th-century Grnlendinga saga, which provides a circumstantial account of the discovery of...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3254