Current saga scholarship is wonderful ... time period that began with the Vinland contact episode, explorations, and so forth, and then after the society in Greenland got rolling and people ...

It was hardly the first such claim—two Icelandic sagas include tales of Vinland, and a forger could ... the sagas and originated with a history of Greenland written in 1765.

In one story, on his voyage to Greenland ... called 'Vinland', because of the abundant grapes growing there, and the general fertility of the land. In another - the Groenlendinga saga - he heard ...