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How does the "Saga of Olaf Tryggvason" describe the discovery of North America?

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In another version of the story, interpolated in the "Saga of Olaf Tryggvason" in the Flateyjarbok, Leif completed his mission to Greenland, set out from there c.1002 on a voyage to western lands, discovered several places, and settled for a winter in Vinland . This account is much more detailed, but the account in the "Saga of Eric the Red" is more widely accepted.

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