Buildings Constructed by the Vinland Voyagers in “Eirik the Red’s Saga”

Chapter 10

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The group had built their booths [bygğir, buildings] up above the lake, with some of the huts [scalar] farther inland, and others close to the shore.

Source: Keneva Kunz, trans., "[Buildings Constructed by the Vinland Voyagers in] Eirik the Red's Saga" in The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection, preface by Jane Smiley, introduction by Robert Kellogg, (New York, London, Victoria (Australia), Toronto, Auckland: The Penguin Group, 2000), 653-674. Notes: Translations first published in "The Complete Sagas of Icelanders," volumes I-V (forty-nine tales), Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, Ltd., Iceland, 1997.

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