The Greenlanders
a novel
by Jane Smiley · first published 1988
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"A novel that draws us into a fourteenth-century Norse world at once harsh and beautiful, bleak and opulent with life."
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For a novel set in Norse 14th century Greenland read: "The Greenlanders", it was written in the style of epic sagas. "Once, in very early winter, when Margret was in the hills above Vatna Hverfi laying partridge snares, a man came upon her suddenly, and gave her a fright.…
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