Norse Greenland Viking Peasants in the Arctic

Norse Greenland  Viking Peasants in the Arctic
Author: Arnved Nedkvitne
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781351259583

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How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway. Norse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size. In the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences.

Norse Greenland

Norse Greenland
Author: Jared Diamond
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781101629352

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A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland—excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond’s Collapse This excerpt from the New York Times–bestselling book Collapse takes a timely and fascinating look at prehistoric Norse Greenland—the closest approximation of a controlled experiment in collapse in history. One island, two unique societies (Norse and Inuit). Only one of these societies would succeed—the other would fail. But how? With his trademark accessibility and comprehensiveness, Diamond documents how environmental damage, climate change, loss of friendly contacts and the rise of hostile ones, and the unique political, economic, and social settings of prehistoric Greenland combine to demonstrate exactly why and how societies choose to fail or succeed. Jared Diamond's latest book, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, is available from Viking.

The Greenland Norse

The Greenland Norse
Author: NIELS. LYNNERUP
Publsiher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1998
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 8763512459

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The Viking Discovery of America

The Viking Discovery of America
Author: Helge Ingstad,Anne Stine Ingstad
Publsiher: Breakwater Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2000
Genre: America
ISBN: 1550811584

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Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.

The Vanished Settlers of Greenland

The Vanished Settlers of Greenland
Author: Robert Rix
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2023-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781009359474

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A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?

Norse in the North Atlantic

Norse in the North Atlantic
Author: Ryan Sines
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2019-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761871736

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The North Atlantic was a hostile environment, but somehow the Viking settlers on Iceland survived while the settlers on Greenland failed. Sagas, historical sources, and archaeology are combined to answer the five hundred year old question—why?

Greenland

Greenland
Author: Niels Elers Koch
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2023-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781538181256

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Greenland is a comprehensive full color book with a myriad of information about the country; it contains maps, and hundreds of photos. Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark is the patron of Greenland., and Greenlandic and Danish experts across the Unity of the Realm have helped to create a contemporary and detailed picture of Greenland.

Norse America

Norse America
Author: Gordon Campbell
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780192605986

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The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America. The journey described is a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. In between there lies a huge expanse of uncertainty: sagas that may contain shards of truth, characters that may be partly historical, real archaeology that may be interpreted through the fictions of saga, and fragmentary evidence open to responsible and irresponsible interpretation. Norse America is a book that tells two stories. The first is the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries, settling in Greenland and establishing a shore station at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland (to which a chapter of the book is devoted) and ending (but not culminating) in a fleeting and ill-documented presence on the shores of the North American mainland. The second is the appropriation and enhancement of the westward narrative by Canadians and Americans who want America to have had white North European origins, who therefore want the Vikings to have 'discovered' America, and who in the advancement of that thesis have been willing to twist and manufacture evidence in support of claims grounded in an ideology of racial superiority.