Vikings

The North Atlantic Saga

By: Elisabeth Ward (Editor), William F. Fitzhugh (Editor)

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Paperback | 17 April 2000

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Replete with color photographs, drawings, and maps of Viking sites, artifacts, and landscapes, this book celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. The book''s contributors chart the spread of marauders and traders in Europe as well as the expansion of farmers and explorers throughout the North Atlantic and into the New World. They show that Norse contacts with Native American groups were more extensive than has previously been believed, but that the outnumbered Europeans never established more than temporary settlements in North America.

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"This stimulating work gives the Vikings the place they deserve in the history of the world and will repay both extensive study and casual browsing."--Publishers Weekly

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Preface	p. 8
Puffins, Ringed Pins, and Runestones: The Viking Passage to America	p. 11
Viking Homelands
Scandinavia in the Viking Age	p. 27
The Scandinavian Landscape: People and Environment	p. 31
Farming and Daily Life	p. 42
Religion, Art, and Runes	p. 55
Shamanism and the Vikings?	p. 70
Political Organization and Social Life	p. 72
From Warrior to Trade Economy	p. 84
Ships and Navigation	p. 86
Viking Raiders
The Viking Age in Europe	p. 99
The Eastern Route: Finland in the Viking Age	p. 103
"Laid Waste, Plundered, and Burned": Vikings in Frankia	p. 116
Viking Expansion and Cultural Blending in Britain and Ireland	p. 127
Vikings in the North Atlantic
Sagas of Western Expansion	p. 142
The North Atlantic Environment	p. 146
Vikings in the Faeroe Islands	p. 154
The Archaeology of Landnam: Early Settlement in Iceland	p. 164
The Icelandic Commonwealth Period: Building a New Society	p. 175
Eddas and Sagas in Medieval Iceland	p. 186
Viking America
1000 A.D.: East Meets West	p. 189
Skraeling: First Peoples of Helluland, Markland, and Vinland	p. 193
A Norse Penny from Maine	p. 207
The Viking Settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows	p. 208
Jasper Cores from L'Anse aux Meadows	p. 217
An Introduction to the Vinland Sagas	p. 219
Greenlanders' Saga	p. 220
Erik the Red's Saga	p. 223
An Archaeologist's Interpretation of the Vinland Sagas	p. 228
The Quest for Vinland in Saga Scholarship	p. 232
The Norse and Native North Americans	p. 238
Ellesmere: Vikings in the Far North	p. 248
A World in Transition: Early Cartography of the North Atlantic	p. 257
Unanswered Questions	p. 268
Norse Greenland
From Vikings to Norseman	p. 281
Life and Death in Norse Greenland	p. 285
The Farm Beneath the Sand	p. 295
Greenland and Europe	p. 304
Natives and Norse in Greenland	p. 318
The Demise of Norse Greenland	p. 327
The Norse Legacy in Greenland	p. 340
Viring Legacy
Celebrating the Viking Millennium in America	p. 351
The Old Norse Dream	p. 354
Reflections on an Icon: Vikings in American Culture	p. 365
Stumbles and Pitfalls in the Search for Viking America	p. 374
The Newport Tower	p. 376
Sagas and Science: Climate and Human Impacts in the North Atlantic	p. 385
Travel the Viking Trail: Eco-Tourism and Viking Heritage	p. 394
Contributors	p. 401
Bibliography	p. 402
Acknowledgments	p. 414
Institutions Lending to the Exhibition	p. 417
Checklist	p. 418
Index	p. 427
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