Greenlanders' Saga
This inconspicuous tale, hidden among longer sagas with only a decorated Þ (thorn) to mark its beginning, contains one of the two sagas telling of the Norse discovery of North America. It is only preserved in Flateyjarbók which dates to the mid-fourteenth century.

Photo: J. Ólafsdóttir   Árni Magnússon Institute, Iceland

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