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Title: Eirik the Red's Saga

Author: Anonymous

Translator: John Sephton

Release Date: March 8, 2006 [EBook #17946]

Language: English

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EIRIK THE RED'S SAGA:

A TRANSLATION

READ BEFORE THE
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
OF LIVERPOOL,

JANUARY 12TH, 1880,

BY
THE REV. J. SEPHTON.

LIVERPOOL:
D. MARPLES & CO., LIMITED, MELVILL CHAMBERS.

1880.

CONTENTS.

1. How Vifil, Gudrid's grandfather, came to Iceland.

2. Of Eirik the Red, and his discovery of Greenland.

3. Gudrid's parentage, and the emigration of her father, Thorbjorn,
and his family to Greenland.

4. Eirik's family, and his son Leif's discovery of Vinland.

5. Gudrid marries Thorstein, son of Eirik the Red. [Sickness and
death of Thorstein.]

6. Gudrid marries Karlsefni.

7. Karlsefni's expedition to Vinland. The first winter is passed at
Straumsfjordr.

8. Fate of Thorhall the Sportsman.

9. The second winter is passed at Hop.

10. Dealings with the Skroelingar.

11. Fight with the Skroelingar.

12. Return to Straumsfjordr.

13. The slaying of Thorvald by a One-footer. The colonists return
to Greenland after passing the third winter at Straumsfjordr.

14. Heroic magnanimity and fate of Bjarni.

15. Gudrid's descendants.

[Olaf, who was called Olaf the White, was styled a warrior king. He
was the son of King Ingjald, the son of Helgi, the son of Olaf, the
son of Gudred, the son of Halfdan Whiteleg, king of the Uplands (in
Norway). He l