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The Viking Discovery of America

Author : Helge Ingstad,Anne Stine Ingstad
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : America
ISBN : 1550811584

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The Viking Discovery of America by Helge Ingstad,Anne Stine Ingstad Pdf

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
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198861553

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Norse America by Gordon Campbell Pdf

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.

Meadowland

Author : Thomas C. Holt
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748113545

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Meadowland by Thomas C. Holt Pdf

In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. When the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time talking with two veterans, who have a remarkable story to tell; the Viking discovery of America.As he records the story, years later, he also considers its effect on the fourth member of the party; a young Norwegian guardsman who went on to become King Harald Hardradi, who died invading England in 1066 ...

In Search of First Contact

Author : Annette Kolodny
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352860

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In Search of First Contact by Annette Kolodny Pdf

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 contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.

Who was First?

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618663916

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Who was First? by Russell Freedman Pdf

Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.

Myths of the Rune Stone

Author : David M. Krueger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452945439

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Myths of the Rune Stone by David M. Krueger Pdf

What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades. In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher Columbus’s exploration, in which Viking missionaries reached what is now Minnesota in 1362 only to be massacred by Indians. The tale’s credibility was quickly challenged and ultimately undermined by experts, but the myth took hold. Faith in the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone was a crucial part of the local Nordic identity. Accepted and proclaimed as truth, the story of the Rune Stone recast Native Americans as villains. The community used the account as the basis for civic celebrations for years, and advocates for the stone continue to promote its validity despite the overwhelming evidence that it was a hoax. Krueger puts this stubborn conviction in context and shows how confidence in the legitimacy of the stone has deep implications for a wide variety of Minnesotans who embraced it, including Scandinavian immigrants, Catholics, small-town boosters, and those who desired to commemorate the white settlers who died in the Dakota War of 1862. Krueger demonstrates how the resilient belief in the Rune Stone is a form of civil religion, with aspects that defy logic but illustrate how communities characterize themselves. He reveals something unique about America’s preoccupation with divine right and its troubled way of coming to terms with the history of the continent’s first residents. By considering who is included, who is left out, and how heroes and villains are created in the stories we tell about the past, Myths of the Rune Stone offers an enlightening perspective on not just Minnesota but the United States as well.

The Vinland Sagas

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973-09-27
Category : 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.

America Not Discovered by Columbus - An Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen in the Tenth Century

Author : Rasmus Bjorn Anderson
Publisher : Morse Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781446021651

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America Not Discovered by Columbus - An Historical Sketch of the Discovery of America by the Norsemen in the Tenth Century by Rasmus Bjorn Anderson Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements

Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020814342

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North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements by David B. Quinn Pdf

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

The Viking Settlements of North America

Author : Frederick Julius Pohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033869681

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The Viking Settlements of North America by Frederick Julius Pohl Pdf

Result of thirty years research into puzzle of the Viking voyages to Vinland as told by Graenlendinga and Eirik's sagas. Also discusses the Vinland map of 1440.

The Viking Immigrants

Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442663015

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The Viking Immigrants by Laurie K Bertram Pdf

A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.

Vikings

Author : Andrea Hopkins, Ph.D.
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823958177

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Vikings by Andrea Hopkins, Ph.D. Pdf

Presents the history of Viking discovery, including travel to Greenland and North America, discussing the artifacts found to prove the Norse people settled there at one time.

Who Was Leif Erikson?

Author : Nico Medina,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524789343

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Who Was Leif Erikson? by Nico Medina,Who HQ Pdf

Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland almost five centuries before Christopher Columbus even set sail! "Leif the Lucky" and the other fierce, sea-fearing pirates were accomplished navigators who raided foreign lands for resources, hunted for their food, and passed down Old Norse myths from one generation to the next. This book gives readers a detailed account of what life was like during the time of the Vikings.

The Vinland Sagas

Author : Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141991559

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The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson Pdf

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.

The Viking Discovery of America

Author : Finn Hødnebø,Jónas Kristjánsson
Publisher : [Oslo, Norway] : J.M. Stenersens
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : America
ISBN : UCBK:C046215589

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The Viking Discovery of America by Finn Hødnebø,Jónas Kristjánsson Pdf