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The Viking Discovery of America
Author | : Helge Ingstad,Anne Stine Ingstad |
Publsiher | : Breakwater Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
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.
Norse America
Author | : Gordon Campbell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198861553 |
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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, 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.
The Norse Discovery of America
Author | : Andrew Fossum |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : UOM:39015026993850 |
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The Vinland Sagas
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1973-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141906980 |
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One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.
The Norse Discovery of America
Author | : Arthur Middleton Reeves |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781625582072 |
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This work brings together for the first time the interpretation of the best authorities respecting the evidences, historical, archaeologic, inscriptive, and deductive, of Norse discovery, occupation, and colonization of America five centuries before the time of Columbus. The subject, though it has engaged in a general way the attention of historians for a long time, has only within recent years been brought into great prominence by a serious study of the Saga writers of Iceland and Scandinavia. The beginning of this interest dates from 1837 in which year was published, by the Royal Danish Society of Northern Antiquaries, a large quarto volume of old Icelandic documents, in which the proofs were set forth that the discovery credited to Columbus was anticipated by sea-roving Norsemen five hundred years earlier. This great work was edited by Prof. C. C. Rafn, founder of the Royal Danish Society, and was the result of painstaking labor and expensive research by that very distinguished antiquarian.
The Norse Discovery of America The historical background and the evidence of the Norse settlement discovered in Newfoundland
Author | : Anne Stine Ingstad,Helge Ingstad |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : UOM:39015028766635 |
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Volume 2 deals with historical aspects and other matters of significance to an assessment of the Norse discovery of America, providing an elucidation of the background of the Vinland voyages, an interpretation of the sagas and other sources, and investigations of geographical, navigational, climatic, biological, and astronomical concerns.
North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements
Author | : David B. Quinn |
Publsiher | : New York : Harper & Row |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020814342 |
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Details the activities of the Europeans who discovered, explored, and attempted to settle North America.
The Norse Discovery of America
Author | : Anne S. Ingstad,Helge Ingstad |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 995 |
Release | : 1986-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 8200075621 |
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