Re: Event Flyer: A Viking question?????

["H L. Falls" <hlf@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU>]

Poster: "H L. Falls" <hlf@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU>

 
> On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Katherine Morse wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Poster: kmorse@Bledsoe.Net (Katherine Morse)
> > 
> > >Someone once told me something about the Vikings discovering North America
> > way before Columbus. Is there any truth to this? Where is a good place to
> > start looking?
> > Katherine 
> > 
> 	Yes, this is true.  The Vikings had small colonies in North 
> America hundreds of years before Columbus.  You could probably find more 
> information in any encyclopedia or a good book on Viking history.
> 
> 			-James

   I can't find the bibliographic info right off, but I have read a
translation of Eric's Saga and the Vinland Saga (the two sagas in
one volume.  Also, there is a *lot* of info on the net -- try 

    http://kroeber.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/den/vi/vikhome.htm

(gee, I hope I typed that right! :-) for a good starting point, 
including links to a bibliography that lists 

  Magnusson, M. and Paulsson, H.; _The_Vinland_Sagas_, Penguin, 1965.

which is the info I couldn't find a moment ago...

--Landi
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