Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky

Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky PDF Author: Barbara Schiller
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ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Presents brief biographies of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland and of his son who explored parts of North America almost 500 years before Columbus made his first voyage.

Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky

Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky PDF Author: Barbara Schiller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Presents brief biographies of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland and of his son who explored parts of North America almost 500 years before Columbus made his first voyage.

Eric the Red and the Leif the Lucky

Eric the Red and the Leif the Lucky PDF Author: Barbara Schiller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887840118
Category : Vikings
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Leif the Lucky

Leif the Lucky PDF Author: Ingri D'Aulaire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816695454
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Originally published in 1941 by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc."

Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky

Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky PDF Author: Barbara Schiller
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780893751661
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Presents brief biographies of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland and of his son who explored parts of North America almost 500 years before Columbus made his first voyage.

Norse America

Norse America PDF Author: Gordon Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198861559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America. The journey described is a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. In between there lies a huge expanse of uncertainty: sagas that may contain shards of truth, characters that may be partly historical, real archaeology that may be interpreted through the fictions of saga, and fragmentary evidence open to responsible and irresponsible interpretation. Norse America is a book that tells two stories. The first is the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries, ending (but not culminating) in a fleeting and ill-documented presence on the shores of the North American mainland. The second is the appropriation and enhancement of the westward narrative by Canadians and Americans who want America to have had white North European origins, who therefore want the Vikings to have 'discovered' America, and who in the advancement of that thesis have been willing to twist and manufacture evidence in support of claims grounded in an ideology of racial superiority.

Our Little Viking Cousin of Long Ago

Our Little Viking Cousin of Long Ago PDF Author: Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
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Category : Vikings
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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The Far Traveler

The Far Traveler PDF Author: Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156033978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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"Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse. "Brown rightly leaves scholarly work to scholars. Instead, her account presents an enthusiastic appreciation of her education in how fieldwork and literature offer insights into the past."--The Seattle Times "[Brown has] a lovely ear for storytelling."--Los Angeles Times Book Review NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.

Leif the Lucky

Leif the Lucky PDF Author: Ingri D'Aulaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Tells how Leif sailed with his father, Eric the Red, from Iceland to Greenland where he grew up; describes his journeys back to Norway, where he became a Christian and then to the land he called Vinland; and tells how his kinsmen settled in Vinland and met the Indians.

Voyage with the Vikings

Voyage with the Vikings PDF Author: Paul McCusker
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1604828552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Over 1 million sold in series! While visiting Mr. Whittaker at Whit’s Soda Shoppe, Beth and Patrick find a mysterious letter in the Imagination Station requesting a Viking sunstone. The letter is old and says that someone named Albert will be imprisoned if the sunstone isn’t found. Mr. Whittaker sends cousins Patrick and Beth to Greenland circa 1000. On their quest for the sunstone, the cousins meet Vikings Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson—and find the sunstone as they join Leif on his first voyage to North America. But the adventure is just beginning, for when they return to Mr. Whittaker’s workshop with the sunstone, there is another note waiting for them, requesting a silver goblet. Join Patrick and Beth as they continue their travel to various lands and time in the Imagination Station book series.

Eric the Red

Eric the Red PDF Author: Neil Grant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199104390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Book Description
Presents the saga of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland.