Sailing to a New World: The Legendary Discovery of America

Sailing to a New World: The Legendary Discovery of America

At the turn of the first millennium, Leif Eriksson, the elder son of the founder of Norse Greenland, Erik the Red, set foot in North America, opening a period of three and a half centuries of Norse exploration of the New World. He was followed by other fearless explorers such as his brother Thorvald, Thorfinn Karlsefni and his beautiful wife Gudrid, Freydis the wicked queen of Vinland, and even the bold Bishop Gnupsson, who left Greenland to follow in their footsteps and discover the mythical Vinland for himself. Drawing from the medieval Icelandic Sagas and the most up-to-date archaeological findings, this novel explores what was or what might have been the exploration of North America by Scandinavian sailors. Aboard their sturdy longships, they used Greenland as a stepping stone to embark on an amazing chapter of human achievement, half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.