| Description |
432 pages : color illustrations + color maps ; 29 cm |
| Note |
"An exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2000-September 5, 2000." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-413) and index. |
| Contents |
Puffins, ringed pins, and runestones : the Viking passage to America / W.W. Fitzhugh -- I. Viking homelands. Scandinavia in the Viking age / P.H. Sawyer -- The Scandinavian landscape : people and environment / N.S. Price -- Farming and daily life / S.H.H. Kaland, I. Martens -- Religion, art, and runes / A. Gräslund -- Shamanism and the Vikings? / N.S. Price -- Political organization and social life / L. Jørgensen -- From warrior to trade economy / L. Hedeager -- Ships and navigation / A.E. Christensen -- II. Viking raiders. The Viking age in Europe / C.D. Morris -- The Eastern route : Finland in the Viking age / T. Edgren -- "Laid waste, plundered, and burned" : Vikings in Frankia / N.S. Price -- Viking expansion and cultural blending in Britain and Ireland / C.E. Batey, J. Sheehan -- |
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III. Vikings in the North Atlantic. Sagas of Western expansion / H. Ólafsson -- The North Atlantic environment / P.C. Buckland -- Vikings in the Faeroe Islands / S.V. Arge -- The archaeology of Landnám : early settlement in Iceland / O. Vésteinsson -- The Icelandic Commonwealth period : building a new society / H. Thorláksson -- Eddas and Sagas in medieval Iceland / G. Sigurðsson -- IV. Viking America. 1000 A.D. : East meets West / P. Schledermann -- Skraeling : first peoples of Helluland, Markland, and Vinland / D. Odess, S. Loring, W.W. Fitzhugh -- A Norse penny from Main / S.L. Cox -- The Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows / B.L. Wallace -- Jasper Cores form L'Anse aux Meadows / K.P. Smith -- An introduction to the Vinland sagas / G. Sigurðsson : Greelanders' saga ; Erik the Red's saga -- |
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V. Norse Greenland. From Vikings to Norseman / J. Arneborg, K.A. Seaver -- Life and death in Norse Greenland / N. Lynnerup -- The farm beneath the sand / J. Berglund -- Greenland and Europe / J. Arnborg -- Natives and Norse in Greenland / H.C. Gulløv -- The demise of Norse Greenland / T.H. McGovern -- The Norse legacy in Greenland / H.C. Petersen -- VI. Viking legacy. Celebrating the Viking millennium in America / W.W. Fitzhugh, E.I. Ward -- The old Norse dream / C. Orrling -- Reflections on an icon : Vikings in American culture / E.I. Ward -- Stumbles and pitfalls in the search for Viking America / B.L. Wallace, W.W. Fitzhugh -- The Newport Tower / J. Hertz -- Sagas and science : climate and human impacts in the North Atlantic / A.E.J. Ogilvie, T.H. McGovern -- Travel the Viking Trail : tourism and Viking heritage / I.A. Morrison. |
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Vikings.
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Northmen.
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Vikings -- Material culture -- Catalogs.
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North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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Greenland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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| Added Author |
Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-
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Ward, Elisabeth I.
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National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
156098970X cloth alkaline paper |
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1560989955 paper alkaline paper |
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