page_title: Saga of the Greenlanders
hierarchical_section_title: Saga of the Greenlanders
context_page_description: Grœnlendinga saga is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Along with Saga of Erik the Red, it is one of the two main literary sources of information for the Norse exploration of North America. It relates the colonization of Greenland by Erik the Red and his followers. It then describes several expeditions further west led by Erik's children and Þorfinnr "Karlsefni" Þórðarson.
  The saga is preserved in the late 14th Century Flateyjarbók manuscript and is believed to have been first written sometime in the 13th century regarding events between around 970 to 1030. Parts of the saga are fanciful, but much is believed to be based on historical truth.
context_section_description: 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. Along with Saga of Erik the Red, it is one of the two main literary sources of information for the Norse exploration of North America. It relates the colonization of Greenland by Erik the Red and his followers. It then describes several expeditions further west led by Erik's children and Þorfinnr "Karlsefni" Þórðarson.
  The saga is preserved in the late 14th Century Flateyjarbók manuscript and is believed to have been first written sometime in the 13th century regarding events between around 970 to 1030. Parts of the saga are fanciful, but much is believed to be based on historical truth.
caption: Summer on the Greenland coast circa year 1000 
  by Carl Rasmussen
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