Leif Eriksson (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine B. Shippen
- First Published: 1951
- Time of Work: The late tenth and early eleventh centuries
- Setting: Iceland, Greenland, and the eastern coast of North America
- Principal Characters: Leif Eriksson, Erik the Red, Thyrker, Thorhild, Olaf Tryggvason, Gudrid, Bjarni Herjolfsson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Voyages, Sea or seafaring life, Biography, Exploration or explorers, Norway or Norwegians, Vikings, Greenland or Greenlanders
- Locales: North America, Iceland, Greenland
Form and Content
Katherine B. Shippen’s Leif Eriksson: First Voyager to America is a romanticized account of the Norse explorer’s life and times drawn primarily from the Karlsefni Saga of medieval Iceland. In twenty-six short chapters plus an introduction, Shippen chronologically traces Eriksson’s family from Norway (where his father, Erik, was proclaimed an outlaw for manslaughter) to Iceland, where Eriksson was born.
In her account of the Norse colony in Iceland, Shippen introduces a number of interesting characters from the pages of the Karlsefni...
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