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Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga

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Replete with color photographs, drawings, and maps of Viking sites, artifacts, and landscapes, this book celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. The book’s contributors chart the spread of marauders and traders in Europe in addition to the expansion of farmers and explorers all through the North Atlantic and into the New World. They show that Norse contacts with Native American groups were more extensive than has prior to now been believed, but that the outnumbered Europeans never established more than temporary settlements in North The us.
In the early Middle Ages, driven by famine at home and the promise of wealth available in other lands, the Viking people exploded out of Scandinavia and set about conquering parts of England, Ireland, France, Russia, and even Turkey. Emboldened by their successes, the Vikings pushed ever farther outward, eventually crossing the North Atlantic and founding settlements in Iceland, Greenland, and eastern Canada.

In The Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, some three dozen scholars examine the growing archaeological evidence of the Viking presence in the New World–including such items as a Norse coin excavated in Maine, runic stones from the Canadian Arctic, and farming implements found in Newfoundland. The contributors imagine the now and again friendly, now and again warlike history of Viking interactions with the native peoples of northeastern North The us (whom the Norse called skraelings, or “screamers”); compare the archaeological record with latest sagas and other records of exploration; and argue for the wish to better document the Viking contribution to New World history.

“As an historical and cultural achievement,” write the editors, “the Viking Age and its North American medieval extension stand out as one of the vital remarkable periods in human history.” This oversized, heavily illustrated volume celebrates that little-understood time. –Gregory McNamee

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