According to Allan Nevins, in his book titled, "Gateway to History,"
             published in 1938, the earliest story of the discovery of what is now the
             North American continent can be found in Icelandic sagas. (Nevins, 66)
             The first written form of the discovery was drawn heavily from the oral
             tradition. The two principle sources of the accounting of the discovery
             are from the "Saga of Eric," and the "Tale of the Greenlanders." Nevin
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