Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Norse Voyages to Greenland and Vinland in Medieval Icelandic Saga TraditionBy Arthur Middleton Reeves, John Sephton
Length2h 6m
About this audiobook
Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red brings together two foundational Icelandic accounts of Norse exploration, settlement, and encounter across the North Atlantic. Combining terse saga prose, genealogical memory, voyage narrative, and legendary embellishment, the volume illuminates the imaginative and historical world of Greenland, Iceland, and Vinland. Its memorable episodes—perilous crossings, contested colonies, prophetic dreams, and meetings with Indigenous peoples—place it at the center of medieval literature on discovery and cultural contact. Presented through the work of Arthur Middleton Reeves and John Sephton, the collection reflects nineteenth-century scholarly engagement with Old Norse texts and the effort to make medieval Scandinavian sources available to English readers. The sagas themselves emerge from the Icelandic literary tradition, where oral history, family prestige, Christian retrospect, and heroic narrative converge. Together, these voices preserve a layered record of migration, commerce, kinship, violence, and wonder at the edge of the known world. This volume is highly recommended for readers interested in medieval literature, Viking history, exploration narratives, and the early European imagination of America. It offers a compact yet rich opportunity to compare variant traditions and to consider how saga writing transforms memory into literature. Students and general readers alike will find in it a stimulating dialogue between history, myth, and cultural identity.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (56)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length2 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red (Annotated)
2Saga of the Greenlanders
3Erik the Red's Saga
4Memorable Quotes
More from Arthur Middleton Reeves, John Sephton
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino8h 59m4.5 (877)$23
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m4.6 (2.6K)$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h4.6 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
The SurvivorJosef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin9h 22m4.6 (2.5K)$29 · $0.00
Always FaithfulThomas Schueman, Zainullah Zaki12h 12m4.6 (977)$29 · $0.00
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Annotated)Alexis de Tocqueville17h 25m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
These Precious DaysAnn Patchett11h 14m4.5 (45.2K)$29 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
The Complete Histories / History Plays of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare29h 42m4.6 (2.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 50m4.6 (1.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust16h 8m4.5 (10.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
Lessons in TruthH. Emilie3h 50m4.6 (1.4K)$4.70 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter3h 36m4.5 (75K)$3 · $0.00
Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery11h 1m4.5 (1.2M)$2.30 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
The North American IndianEdward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge6h4.5 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Uncensored 13 Chapter Version + The Revised 20 Chapter Version (Annotated)Oscar Wilde16h 12m4.5 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
Grimoire Of The Everyday WitchIsadora Lys / Virginia Santos5h 35m4.5 (3.9K)$9 · $0.00
Winnie-the-PoohAlan Alexander Milne2h 52m4.5 (401.1K)$3 · $0.00
You may also like
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (Annotated)James Baldwin4h 18m4.1 (3.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
English Literature for Boys and Girls (Annotated)H. E. Marshall22h 25m4.3 (433)$2 · $0.00
Viking Tales (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Jennie Hall3h 37m4.0 (2K)$2 · $0.00
The Arabian Nights EntertainmentsAndrew Lang11h 45m4.1 (18.6K)$2 · $0.00
Penguin IslandAnatole France8h 58m3.8 (3.9K)$20
The MabinogionLady Charlotte Guest10h 34m4.0 (10.5K)Free
History of the Conquest of Mexico (Vol. 1-4)William Hickling Prescott47h 48m4.2 (5.8K)$1 · $0.00
Tales of the Greek HeroesRoger Lancelyn Green5h 3m4.0 (6.2K)$14
Travels in Tartary, Tibet, and China During the Years 1844-1846 (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)Evariste Régis Huc27h 57m4.3 (344)$2 · $0.00
Tales from Watership DownRichard Adams6h 12m4.0 (13K)$17
The Far TravelerNancy Marie Brown9h 39m3.9 (1.8K)$29 · $0.00
By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico (Annotated)G. A. Henty15h 20m4.0 (1.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Chinese ArtStephen W. Bushell5h 34m4.2 (31)$18 · $0.00
Old English PoemsAnonymous5h 28m4.0 (563)$1 · $0.00
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian SourcesF. Anton von Schiefner14h 34m$2.30
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol. 1&2)John Addington Symonds32h 26m$1 · $0.00
The VikingsRobert Livesey1h 11m4.1 (35)$8 · $0.00
Dynasties Of DevotionDeepa Mandlik, Aboli Mandlik6h 5m4.1 (16)$24 · $0.00
The History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (The Complete Two-Volume Edition)S. A. Dunham24h 54m$2 · $0.00
Kiana: a Tradition of HawaiiJames Jackson Jarves5h 31m$2 · $0.00