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Viking Voyages to North America

Author : Vikingeskibshallen (Roskilde, Denmark)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021010298

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Viking Voyages to North America

Author : Birthe L. Clausen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : America
ISBN : 8772415924

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North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements

Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.

Beyond the Northlands

Author : Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191004476

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Beyond the Northlands by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Pdf

In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimages and crusades. The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond; north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. Beyond the Northlands explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures, and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond the horizon of reality. On the crackling brown pages of saga manuscripts, trolls, dragons, and outlandish tribes jostle for position with explorers, traders, and kings. To explore the sagas and the world that produced them, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough now takes her own trip through the dramatic landscapes that they describe. Along the way, she illuminates the rich but often confusing saga accounts with a range of other evidence: archaeological finds, rune-stones, medieval world maps, encyclopaedic manuscripts, and texts from as far away as Byzantium and Baghdad. As her journey across the Old Norse world shows, by situating the sagas against the revealing background of this other evidence, we can begin at least to understand just how the world was experienced, remembered, and imagined by this unique culture from the outermost edge of Europe so many centuries ago.

The Viking Settlements of North America

Author : Frederick Julius Pohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 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.

Norse America

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.

Vikings in North America

Author : Kathleen O'Neal Gear,W. Michael Gear
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466892477

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Vikings in North America by Kathleen O'Neal Gear,W. Michael Gear Pdf

With VIKINGS IN NORTH AMERICA, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, renowned archaeologists and bestselling authors of America's Forgotten Past series, discuss the fascinating myths that compelled the first Norse explorers to brave the oceans to reach North American shores. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Vikings in North America

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543005217

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The Vikings in North America by Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Vikings' expeditions from medieval sagas *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Over the centuries, the West has become fascinated by the Vikings, one of the most mysterious and interesting European civilizations. In addition to being perceived as a remarkably unique culture among its European counterparts, what's known and not known about the Vikings' accomplishments has added an intriguing aura to the historical narrative. Were they fierce and fearsome warriors? Were they the first Europeans to visit North America? It seems some of the legends are true, and some are just that, legend. The ubiquitous picture of the Vikings as horn-helmeted, brutish, hairy giants that mercilessly marauded among the settlements of Northern Europe is based on a smattering of fact combined with an abundance of prejudicial historical writing by those who were on the receiving end of Viking depredations. At the same time, much of the popular picture of the Vikings is a result of the romantic imagination of novelists and artists. However, the Vikings' reputation for ferocious seaborne attacks along the coasts of Northern Europe is no exaggeration. It is true that the Norsemen, who traded extensively throughout Europe, often increased the profits obtained from their nautical ventures through plunder, acquiring precious metals and slaves. Of course, the Vikings were not the only ones participating in this kind of income generation; between the 8th and the 11th centuries, European tribes, clans, kingdoms and monastic communities were quite adept at fighting with each other for the purpose of obtaining booty. The Vikings were simply more consistently successful than their contemporaries and thus became suitable symbols for the iniquity of the times. Of course, the military reputation came about because the Vikings were the great mariners and explorers of medieval Europe. While many of their journeys were ones of conquest, they also had a deep love of exploration, and from their homeland in Scandinavia, they traveled as far as North America and became the first Europeans who are known to have set foot on what is now Canada. It was not until 1960 that the actual site of a Viking settlement in Vinland was found. At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland, Canada, a small Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows was excavated, with the foundations of three residential halls have been found. These halls would have housed between 70 and 90 people. As well as the sod covered halls, a smithy where nails were made and a small boat repair building have been found. It is believed that this settlement, which may have had as many as 500 inhabitants, is one of two settlements called Straumfjord and Hop mentioned in the Saga of Erik the Red as being his Vinland bases. L'Anse aux Meadows is thought to be the former, and it is believed that Hop was a summer camp perhaps as far south as New Brunswick. The native inhabitants of the New World were called Skrellings by the Vikings, and there is evidence that they engaged in battle with the Beothuks at L'Anse aux Meadows and the Mi'kmaq people further south. While there is still debate over where exactly the Norse settled the land, there is no hard evidence that they ventured further south than Newfoundland, where remains of a settlement have been found. If they had rounded Cape Breton and crossed the Cabot Strait, they would have come to a markedly different environment that would probably have compelled the explorers to come up with a fourth name for the region south of Vinland. The Vikings in North America chronicles the historic voyages the Vikings made to North America and what's known and unknown about their pre-Columbian settlements. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Norse colonization of North America like never before, in no time at all.

Indians in the Americas

Author : William Marder
Publisher : Book Tree
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1585091049

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Indians in the Americas by William Marder Pdf

Many books over the years have promised to tell the true story of the Native American Indians. Many, however, have been filled with misinformation or derogatory views. Finally here is a book that the Native American can believe in. This well researched book tells the true story of Native American accomplishments, challenges and struggles and is a gold mine for the serious researcher. It includes extensive notes to the text and over 500 photographs and illustrations -- many that have never before been published. The author, after 20 years of research, has attempted to provide the world with the most truthful and accurate portrayal of the Native American Indians. Every serious researcher and Native American family should have this ground-breaking book.

Viking America

Author : Geraldine Barnes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0859916081

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Viking America by Geraldine Barnes Pdf

Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, Groenlendinga saga (Saga of Greenlanders) and Eiriks saga rauda(Saga of Eric the Red), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns. GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.

The Native Peoples of North America

Author : Bruce Elliott Johansen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813538990

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The Native Peoples of North America by Bruce Elliott Johansen Pdf

Covering Central America, the United States, and Canada, this book not only provides an introduction to the history of North American Indians, but also offers a description of the material and intellectual ways that Native American cultures have influenced the life and institutions of people across the globe.

Arctic Clothing of North America-Alaska, Canada, Greenland

Author : J.C.H. King
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773573284

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Arctic Clothing of North America-Alaska, Canada, Greenland by J.C.H. King Pdf

In the Arctic, sea and land animals provide the raw materials for garments that allow people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions.

Viking Explorers

Author : Henrietta Toth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Civilization, Viking
ISBN : 1477788336

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Viking Explorers by Henrietta Toth Pdf

Presents information about the Viking civilization and describes their voyages across the Atlantic to become the first Europeans to set foot in the New World.

Viking Hoaxes in North America

Author : Jeffrey R. Redmond
Publisher : New York : Carlton Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015005485076

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Viking Hoaxes in North America by Jeffrey R. Redmond Pdf

Debunks the myths and frauds that through the years have been perpetuated in an attempt to prove that the Vikings landed on the North American continent and ventured inland.

Vikings in America

Author : Graeme Davis
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857900654

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Vikings in America by Graeme Davis Pdf

When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonisation of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic and DNA evidence which supplements the historic account. For four centuries or more, from their first visits around AD 1000 to the eve of the Columbus voyages, the Vikings explored and settled thousands of miles of the coasts and rivers of North America. From New York's Long Island to the Canadian High Arctic the New World was a playground for Viking adventurers. And the name the Vikings gave to this New World - America.