Screen LibraryNorse America : the story of a founding myth /
"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--and what these myths tell...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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--and what these myths tell us about those who spread them and the society that nurtured them. This is a book that definitively sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-230) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198861553 0198861559 |
| Index Number: | E105 |
| CLC: |
K887.1 K710.31 |
| Call Number: | K710.31/C187 |
| Contents: | Discovering America -- Sagas and chronicles -- Maps -- Iceland and the discovery of Greenland -- Norse Greenland -- L'anse aux meadows -- The limits of the Norse presence in North America -- American runestones -- The Kensington runestone -- Understanding Norse America. |