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This figure’s son Thorstein rises from the dead to beg Gudrid for a burial on consecrated ground. When a man in this figure’s namesake saga claims that Thor provided a strange whale, that man’s companions immediately throw it away and pray to God. This figure’s namesake saga (15[1])provides a (-5[1])detailed description of a seeress clad in ermine and glass beads named Thorbjörg Lítilvölva. This figure’s daughter reverses the tide of a battle when she takes a sword from a corpse and exposes her breast; (15[1])that shieldmaiden daughter of this figure is named Freydis. A son of this figure receives the epithet (*) “lucky” after rescuing shipwrecked men. After his thralls cause a landslide, this figure goes into banishment. Merchants and the children of this figure encounter skraelings on their voyages. For 10 points, name (10[1])this Viking explorer whose exploits begin the Saga of the Greenlanders, which also focuses on his son Leif. (10[1])■END■

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