Episode 4 - Eirik the Red's Saga

Published: Nov. 7, 2013, 4:42 p.m.

b'It\\u2019s time to strike out for the west in the latest\\ninstallment of Saga Thing. Join us as we sail through stormy and unpredictable\\nseas in the Saga of Eirik the Red!\\n\\n\\nThe\\nVinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America: \\u201cGraenlendinga Saga\\u201d and\\n\\u201cEirik\\u2019s Saga\\u201d (Classics)\\n\\nThe first of the two so-called V\\xednland sagas to be reviewed,\\nEiriks saga offers up a story that\\u2019s part travelogue, part bloodbath, and part\\nconfusing as heck. In this episode, we\\u2019ll learn all about Eirik the Red\\u2019s bad\\nhabit of killing almost everyone he meets, his son Leif\\u2019s discovery of V\\xednland\\nthrough the magic of pure navigational incompetence, the volatile natives of\\nthis dangerous new land, and another round of hauntings (much to Andy\\u2019s\\ndelight).\\n\\nWill Eirik ever meet a nice neighborhood and settle down\\n(without killing anyone who lives there)? Why does a Greenland seeress need\\nsuch fancy seat-cushions? Is that a\\xa0Uniped\\xa0hopping through the\\nV\\xednland woods? And just whereare\\xa0Helluland and Markland, anyway?'