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Episode 4 - Eirik the Red's Saga
It’s time to strike out for the west in the latest
installment of Saga Thing. Join us as we sail through stormy and unpredictable
seas in the Saga of Eirik the Red!
The
Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America: “Graenlendinga Saga” and
“Eirik’s Saga” (Classics)
The first of the two so-called Vínland sagas to be reviewed,
Eiriks saga offers up a story that’s part travelogue, part bloodbath, and part
confusing as heck. In this episode, we’ll learn all about Eirik the Red’s bad
habit of killing almost everyone he meets, his son Leif’s discovery of Vínland
through the magic of pure navigational incompetence, the volatile natives of
this dangerous new land, and another round of hauntings (much to Andy’s
delight).
Will Eirik ever meet a nice neighborhood and settle down
(without killing anyone who lives there)? Why does a Greenland seeress need
such fancy seat-cushions? Is that a Uniped hopping through the
Vínland woods? And just whereare Helluland and Markland, anyway?
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It’s time to strike out for the west in the latest
installment of Saga Thing. Join us as we sail through stormy and unpredictable
seas in the Saga of Eirik the Red!
The
Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America: “Graenlendinga Saga” and
“Eirik’s Saga” (Classics)
The first of the two so-called Vínland sagas to be reviewed,
Eiriks saga offers up a story that’s part travelogue, part bloodbath, and part
confusing as heck. In this episode, we’ll learn all about Eirik the Red’s bad
habit of killing almost everyone he meets, his son Leif’s discovery of Vínland
through the magic of pure navigational incompetence, the volatile natives of
this dangerous new land, and another round of hauntings (much to Andy’s
delight).
Will Eirik ever meet a nice neighborhood and settle down
(without killing anyone who lives there)? Why does a Greenland seeress need
such fancy seat-cushions? Is that a Uniped hopping through the
Vínland woods? And just whereare Helluland and Markland, anyway?
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