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Norse America
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Gordon Campbell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
The Viking Discovery of America
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Helge Ingstad
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Breakwater Books

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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,
The American Discovery of the Norse
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Erik Ingvar Thurin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

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"The interest of a group of American writers in the Norse (Viking Age Scandinavians) began to develop in the late 1830s, reaching its high point at mid-century
In Search of First Contact
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Annette Kolodny
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-29 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they
North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements
Language: en
Pages: 666
Authors: David B. Quinn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1977 - Publisher: New York : Harper & Row

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Details the activities of the Europeans who discovered, explored, and attempted to settle North America.