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The Vinland Sagas

Anonymous

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1250
Originally in
Originally in Old Norse
Pages
Pages 110

The first thing they did on that new shore was touch the dew on the grass and put it to their lips, and it seemed to them they had never tasted anything so sweet. These two sagas carry the Greenland Norse west past Helluland's flat stones and Markland's forests to a country of wild grapes and self-sown wheat, and then carry them home again, beaten.

She let down her sark and struck her breast with the naked sword.
The Vinland Sagas, Anonymous

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