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Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009359474
A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?
Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009359467
For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.
Author : Helge Ingstad
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034830450
Norwegian explorer reconstructs all aspects of life in Norse communities founded by Eirik the Red about 1000 A.D.
Author : Jacques Privat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781644114483
Presents evidence of early Norse settlement in Greenland and North America • Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestri-bygd and Eystri-bygd • Shares extensive evidence from the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far North as well as surviving sculptural art to show how the Vikings and the Inuit formed a harmonious community • Examines ancient maps and other cartography, such as the 15th-century Martin Behaim globe, as well as explorers’ records of their voyages Sharing his extensive and meticulous research, Jacques Privat reveals that the Vikings were in Greenland, its neighboring islands, and the eastern shores of Canada long before Columbus. He examines in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly five centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestribygð and Eystribygð, which disappeared mysteriously: one in 1342 and the other in the 16th century. Drawing on the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far North, as well as surviving sculptural art carvings, he shows how, far from being constantly at odds with the native population, the Norsemen and the Inuit formed a harmonious community. He reveals how this friendly Inuit-Viking relationship encouraged the Scandinavian settlers to forsake Christianity and return to their pagan roots. Working with ancient European maps and other cartography, such as the 15th-century Martin Behaim globe, as well as explorers’ records of their voyages, the author examines the English, Irish, German, Danish, Flemish, and Portuguese presence in the Far North. He explores how Portugal dominated many seas and produced the first correct cartography of Greenland as an island. He also reveals how Portugal may have been behind the disappearance of the Vikings in Greenland by enslaving them for their European plantations. Dispelling once and for all the theories that the Inuit were responsible for the failure of the Scandinavian colonies of the Far North, the author reveals how, ultimately, the Church opted to cut all ties with the settlements—rather than publicize that a formerly Christian people had become pagan again. When the lands of the Far North were officially “discovered” after the Middle Ages, the Norse colonies had vanished, leaving behind only legends and mysterious ruins.
Author : Lisa M. Bolt Simons
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781666322453
"In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, the route would be a faster way to get goods from Asia to Europe and back. But success was not in the cards for Franklin's expedition. Only recently, the sunken ships were discovered in the icy Arctic waters. What happened to Franklin and his men, and what messages did they leave behind?"--
Author : Geoffrey Williamson
Publisher : London : Sidgwick and Jackson
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Eskimos
ISBN : UOM:39015069917162
Popular account of modern Greenland.
Author : Colin Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Finland
ISBN : UOM:39015008445952
Author : Bryan Alexander,Cherry Alexander
Publisher : New York : Facts on File
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816036500
Offers a look at the traditional life and landscape of different Arctic cultures from Greenland, Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, and the United States
Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : London : Printed for T. and J. Allman, ..., W.H. Reid, ... , and Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Greenland
ISBN : YALE:39002007505598
Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : International Polar Institute
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736690205
In the beginning of the 18th century there still was hope of finding Norse descendants among the Eskimo in Greenland. A Norwegian clergyman, Hans Egede, having managed to persuade the authorities that such people should be converted to the Lutheran faith, arrived in the Godthåb Fjord (in the southwest) to begin a new European settlement in Greenland, but found only Eskimo. The history of modern Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) can be traced to this voyage in 1721. He discovered no survivors of the old colonists, but stayed to found his own settlement at Godthåb (now Nuuk) and to begin the development of the country and its Inuit people.
Author : Jørgen Fleischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Greenland
ISBN : 8711162740
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101629352
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026885595
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322794626
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553707
Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.