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Vikings : The North Atlantic Saga

  • Vikings : The North Atlantic Saga

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    edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward

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    Book, Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of Natural History, 2000

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  • Description

    Although Norse voyages were known since the early 1800?s, the near absence of physical evidence of Vikings in the New World has rendered the information, and the possibility that Norse explorers reached the North American mainland five hundred years before Columbus, speculative, at best. Yet, discovery of a Viking site in Newfoundland in 1960 confirmed a pre-Columbian European presence in the Americas, and Norse artifacts found in archaeological sites scattered throughout the eastern Canadian arctic and sub-arctic, raise the issue of how far south of Newfoundland the Norse did explore, and what impact their contacts had on Native Americans. These finds suggest that Native Americans interacted with the Norse in a variety of ways: by casual contacts, scavenging Norse wrecks, or outright skirmishes This volume celebrates the Vikings? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • "An exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2000- September 5, 2000"–T.p

  • Contents

    • Preface / Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Puffins, Ringed Pins, and Runestones: The Viking Passage to America / William W. Fitzhugh
    • I. Viking Homelands
    • Scandinavia in the Viking Age / Peter H. Sawyer. 1. The Scandinavian Landscape: People and Environment / Neil S. Price. 2. Farming and Daily Life / Sigrid H. H. Kaland and Irmelin Martens. 3. Religion, Art, and Runes / Anne-Sofie Graslund. Shamanism and the Vikings? / Neil S. Price. 4. Political Organization and Social Life / Lars Jorgensen. From Warrior to Trade Economy / Lotte Hedeager. 5. Ships and Navigation / Arne Emil Christensen
    • II. Viking Raiders
    • The Viking Age in Europe / Christopher D. Morris. 6. The Eastern Route: Finland in the Viking Age / Torsten Edgren. 7. "Laid Waste, Plundered, and Burned": Vikings in Frankia / Neil S. Price. 8. Viking Expansion and Cultural Blending in Britain and Ireland / Colleen E. Batey and John Sheehan
    • III. Vikings in the North Atlantic
    • Sagas of Western Expansion / Haraldur Olafsson. 9. The North Atlantic Environment / Paul C. Buckland. 10. Vikings in the Faeroe Islands / Simun V. Arge. 11. The Archaeology of Landnam: Early Settlement in Iceland / Orri Vesteinsson. 12. The Icelandic Commonwealth Period: Building a New Society / Helgi Thorlaksson. Eddas and Sagas in Medieval Iceland / Gisli Sigurosson
    • IV. Viking America
    • 1000 A.D. East Meets West / Peter Schledermann. 13. Skraeling: First Peoples of Helluland, Markland, and Vinland / D. Odess, S. Loring and W. W. Fitzhugh. A Norse Penny from Maine / Steven L. Cox. 14. The Viking Settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows / Birgitta Linderoth Wallace. Jasper Cores from L’Anse aux Meadows / Kevin P. Smith. An Introduction to the Vinland Sagas / Gisli Sigurosson. Greenlander’s Saga. Erik the Red’s Saga. 15. The Archaeologist’s Interpretation of the Vinland Sagas / Birgitta Linderoth Wallace. 16. The Quest for Vinland in Saga Scholarship / Gisli Sigurasson. 17. The Norse and Native North Americans / Patricia D. Sutherland. 18. Ellesmere: Vikings in the Far North / Peter Schledermann. 19. A World in Transition: Early Cartography of the North Atlantic / Douglas McNaughton. 20. Unanswered Questions / Kirsten A. Seaver
    • V. Norse Greenland
    • From Vikings to Norseman / Jette Arneborg and Kirsten A. Seaver. 21. Life and Death in Norse Greenland / Niels Lynnerup. 22. The Farm Beneath the Sand / Joel Berglund. 23. Greenland and Europe / Jette Arneborg. 24. Natives and Norse in Greenland / Hans Christian Gullov. 25. The Demise of Norse Greenland / Thomas H. McGovern. 26. The Norse Legacy in Greenland / Hans Christian Petersen
    • VI. Viking Legacy
    • Celebrating the Viking Millennium in America / William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward. 27. The Old Norse Dream / Carin Orrling. 28. Reflections on an Icon: Vikings in American Culture / Elisabeth I. Ward. 29. Stumbles and Pitfalls in the Search for Viking America / Birgitta L. Wallace and William W. Fitzhugh. The Newport Tower / Johannes Hertz. 30. Sagas and Science: Climate and Human Impacts in the North Atlantic / Astrid E. J. Ogilvie and Thomas H. McGovern. 31. Travel the Viking Trail: Eco- Tourism and Viking Heritage / Ian A. Morrison
    • Institutions Lending to the Exhibition

  • ISBN

    • 1560989955
    • 156098970x
    • 156098970x

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