Eirik the Red's Saga - FULL Audio Book - by Anonymous
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Eiríks saga rauða ( listen (help·info)) or the
Saga of Erik the Red is a saga on the
Norse exploration of North-America. The saga chronicles the events that led to
Erik the Red's banishment to
Greenland as well as
Leif Ericson's discovery of
Vinland the Good after his longship was blown off course. By geographical details, this place is thought to be present-day
Newfoundland, and is likely the first
European discovery of the
American mainland, some five centuries before
Christopher Columbus's journey.
The saga is preserved in two manuscripts in somewhat different versions; Hauksbók (
14th century) and Skálholtsbók (
15th century).
Modern philologists believe the Skálholtsbók version to be truer to the original. The original saga is thought to have been written in the
13th century.
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There have been numerous translations of the saga, some of the most prominent of which are:
Jones, Gwyn (trans.), 'Eirik the Red's Saga', in
The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of
Discovery and
Settlement to
Iceland, Greenland, and
North America, new edn (
Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
1986), pp. 207--35.
Based on Skálholtsbók, showing some variants from Hauksbók.
Kunz, Keneva (trans.), '
Erik the Red's Saga', in The
Sagas of Icelanders: A
Selection (
London:
Penguin,
2001), pp. 653--74.
Apparently translates the Skálholtsbók text.
Reeves,
Arthur Middleton (ed. and trans.), '
The Saga of
Eric the Red, also Called the Saga of
Thorfinn Karlsefni and Snorri Thorbransson', in The Finding of Wineland the
Good: The
History of the
Icelandic Discovery of America (London:
Henry Frowde, 1890), pp. 28--52, available at
http://www.archive.org/details/winelandthegood00reevrich. Based on the Hauksbók text (which Reeves refers to in the apparatus as ÞsK), though the text does draw some readings from Skálholtsbók (which Reeves refers to as EsR). Variants from both Hauksbók and Skálholtsbók are thoroughly listed. Editions and facsimiles of both manuscripts also included.
Sephton, J. (trans.), Eirik the Red's Saga: A
Translation Read before the
Literary and Philosophical Society of
Liverpool,
January 12, 1880 (Liverpool: Marples, 1880), available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17946 and http://www.sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en (the former version, made by
Project Gutenberg, is the closer to the printed version).
Passages in square brackets are based on Hauksbók; other passages are based on Skálholtsbók, but with some readings from Hauksbók.
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