The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, along with the Saga of Erik the Red. The two accounts describe many of the same events leading to Norse contact with the North American coastline almost five hundred years before Columbus, but contradict each other in a number of mysterious and fascinating ways. Containing less fantastic material than the Saga of Erik the Red , the Saga of the Greenlanders details the conflict between Christianity and the old Norse religion; the significant place of extraordinary women in Icelandic and Greenlander culture; and first contact with the native inhabitants of the Dawnlands of northeastern North America. Most absorbing is the three-dimensioned portrayal of real human personalities, an intriguingly distinct cast of characters from that of its parallel saga: Leif Erikson, the larger-than-life hero who seems to be mystically guided wherever he goes; Gudrid, the daughter of Thorbiorn, beautiful and of strong and influential character; Freydis, the implacable killer of anyone she considers an enemy; and Tyrker, the outlandish little foster-father of Leif and gleeful discoverer of wine grapes in the new land. Read together, the two sagas take on new significance by their contrasts and their similarities, raising as many mysteries as they solve. This translation by Arthur Middleton Reeves is taken from a weighty compilation of texts related to the Norse explorations entitled The Norse Discoveries of America and including the translations and editing of fellow Norse scholars North Ludlow Beamish and Rasmus Bjrn Anderson.

Au petit matin, deux promeneurs découvrent trois hommes pendus aux branches d'un marronnier du Champ-de-Mars, en face de la Tour Eiffel... Les journaux se font des gorges chaudes de cette affaire, d'autant qu'une lettre de Théodore ROUMA, le célèbre cambrioleur, revendique le triple assassinat allant jusqu'à fournir l'identité et l'adresse des trois victimes. Pourtant, le commissaire Larbart, connaissant bien son ennemi de toujours, sait que celui-ci n'est pas du genre à commettre des crimes. Mais, pour une fois, Larbart est déchargé de l'enquête...

Une histoire vivante de la Haute-Vienne : son évolution démographique, économique, sociale et culturelle, de la Première Guerre mondiale à nos jours. Enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et documents d'époque, cet ouvrage s'adresse à tous, lecteurs curieux, passionnés d'histoire locale, enseignants soucieux d'aborder avec leurs élèves la vie de notre département, en s'appuyant sur des données scientifiques.

Johan Boje, msaidizi wa polisi wa Eneo la Kati na Magharibi mwa Jutland anafariki baada ya kugongwa na gari lililokuwa likiendeshwa kwa kasi akiwa nje ya nyumbani kwake usiku mmoja wa manane mwezi Machi. Bosi wake, Alex Borg, ni mmoja wa watu wa kwanza kufika kwenye eneo la tukio. Kwa haraka anagundua kuwa hii si ajali ya kawaida ya kugongwa na gari na kisha mtuhumiwa kuhepa, lakini ni mauaji ya kikatili. Mwanake Boje mwenye umri wa miaka tisa anadai kuwa aliliona gari hilo, na kwamba lilikuwa linaendeshwa na afisa wa polisi. Je, ni fikra za kijana huyo mwenye mfadhaiko zinamchezea shere? Kamera ya uchunguzi ya kituo cha mafuta inathibitisha masimulizi ya mtoto - mtu fulani aliyekuwa amevalia sare za polisi alikuwa anaendesha gari hilo wakati wa usiku huo wa ajali ya mauti. Roland Benito, mpelelezi katika Mamlaka ya Malalamishi ya Polisi, anapewa usukani wa kuendesha kesi. Ni nani kati ya marafiki wa Johan Boje alikuwa na nia ya kutenda maovu kama hayo? Rolando Benito anaungana na Anne Larsen, mwanahabari kutoka kituo cha televisheni cha TV2 East Jutland. Wanafuatilia alama za magurudumu hadi kwenye moto, ambao ulikuwa na hasara kubwa kwa familia ya eneo hilo. Labda moto huo haukuwa ajali? Anne na Rolando wanakisia kuwa huenda nia ikawa ni tofauti sana na kile walichotarajia mwanzoni. Msako wa kumtafuta mhalifu huyo unaanza kabla hajafanya shambulizi lingine.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.