Saga de los groenlandeses ; Saga de Eirik el Rojo

Like the Greeks of classical antiquity, the Scandinavians believed that accomplishing mighty feats to be remembered for was the highest destiny to which a man could aspire. Hence, most of the sagas have as a central character some legendary figure of arms or the government. Saga of the Greenlanders and Saga of Eirik the Red, anonymous Icelanders of the thirteenth century, narrate in a complementary way several expeditions to Greenland and Vinland -an unidentified place on the north coast of America, where they faced the bellicosity of the Skraelingar, the inhabitants original-, in the successive settlement attempts that took place between 982 and 1000 AD, the same time when the Vikings attacked Santiago de Compostela and made incursions against the Umayyad Caliphate. Two fascinating and timeless narratives that the prologue by Antón and Pedro Casariego Córdoba perfectly contextualizes.