Tyrker

Tyrkir is the name of the German foster-father of Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson of America. He is mentioned in the Grænlendinga saga as German -speaking educator who has Leif Eriksson care from an early age. The name " Tyrkir " is probably a northern form of the German name Dietrich, whose short form is Dirk. The oldest known version is in the old Low German Thirk.

The wine country

Also Tyrkir participated in the discovery journey of Leif in the year 1000 to America. He is in a sense the initiator for the naming of Vinland. The Greenland legend tells of the following condition:

" Á einhverju kveldi bar til tíðenda That, at man's vant var af Lidi Theira, ok var That Tyrkir Suðrmaðr. Leifr kunni því stórilla, því at Tyrkir hafði Lengi verit með theim feðgum, ok elskat mjök Leif í barnæsku. Taldi Leifr nú mjök á Hendr förunautum SINUM ok bjóst til ferðar at leita hans menn ok Tolf með honum. En he THEIR Varů skammt komnir frá skala tha gekk Tyrkir I mot theim, ok var honum vel fagnat. Leifr fann That Bratt, at fostra hans var skapgott. Hann var brattleitr ok lauseygr, smáskitlegr í andliti, Lítill vexti ok vesallegr, en íþróttamaðr á alls konar hagleik. Tha mælti Leifr til hans: " HVI Varstu SVA seinn, fóstri minn, ok fráskili föruneytinu? " Hann talaði tha fyrst Lengi á þýzku ok skaut marga vega augunum ok Gretti sik. En Their skilðu eigi he hvat hann sagði. Hann mælti tha á norrænu, sorry he stood: " Ek var genginn eigi Miklu lengra s thit. Can ek nökkur nýnæmi at segja. Ek fann vínvið ok vínber. " " Mun That tired fóstri minn? " KVAD Leifr. "At he Visu That tired, " KVAD hann, " því at ek var thar fæddr he hvárki skorti vínvið né vínber ". "

" One night, one was missing from the family, and that was Tyrkir, the German. Leif was in the greatest anxiety. Because Tyrkir had been with him, and even at his father for a long time and had loved him in his childhood. Leif made ​​his journey comrades thereat violent accusations. He set out to look for him, and twelve men accompanied him. But they were only a short time on the road, as they came Tyrkir counter already. They received him joyfully. Leif soon realized that his foster father was not right with him. He had a steep forehead, flickering eyes and freckles on her face. He was small of stature and unattractive, yet highly practiced in all kinds of art crafts. As Leif said to him: "Where you because test so long, dear foster father, and why you separated thyself from the Companions " Tyrkir spoke first long German, rolled his eyes and bared his teeth, and no one understood what he was saying. But after a while he said to Nordic: " I did not go much further than her. But I have news for you. I found vines and grapes. " " Is that right, dear foster father? " Asked Leif. "Certainly," replied Tyrkir, " where I 'm at home, but it lacks neither vines nor in grapes. " "

Many " grapes " were now collected and returned to Greenland, where Erik Leif's father was chief of the newly founded colony of Icelanders in Brattahlið. However, the country named Leif, surnamed " the lucky one ", according to the found " grapes " Vinland, ie "wine country ". Among the grapes closer to see local products.

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