Voyages of the Northmen to America
By: including extracts from Icelandic sagas relating to western voyages by Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries in an English translation by North Ludlow Beamish with a synopsis of the historical evidence and the opinion of Professor Rafn as to the places visited by the Scandinavians on the coast of America.
Series: Publications of the Prince Society,; 10; Burt Franklin research and source works series,; #131.; American classics in history and social science,; #2; Publications of the Prince Society ;; v. 10.
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Sagas -- Translations into English.; Geography, Medieval.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
Other titles: Eiríks saga rauða.; Þorfinns saga Karlsefnis ok Snorra Þorbrandssonar.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [127]-140.
The translations are from The discovery of America by the Northmen, by Beamish, largely taken from Rafn's Antiquitates Americanae.
"Concerning Erik the Red": p. [23]-43. "Saga of Thorfinn Karlsefne": p. 45-69.