The Norse Discovery of America

Like most Scandinavian sagas the question regarding their accuracy centers on an examination of what part of the saga is based on historical fact and what part is a fanciful retelling. A thorough examination of the "Vinland Sagas" by scholars seems to support the claim that Norse explorers discovered the New World hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus. The so-called "Vinland Sagas" consist of two independently written sagas, "The Saga of Erik the Red" and "The Saga of the Greenlande...