Download or read book Westward to Vinland written by Helge Ingstad and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1969 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Viking Discovery of America written by Helge Ingstad and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Rediscovering Vinland written by III Fred N. Brown and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 100 years, people have debated where Vinland is located. This book describes what sagas said, where Vikings landed, what interaction they had with Natives, and what legacy they left Indians and early European colonists. Fred Brown uses 33 years of studying Viking accounts of journeys to America, genetic information, archaeological evidence, Old Norse language remnants, and sailing experience to pinpoint yet another Viking incursion in New England. His detective work to find Vinland is brilliant and masterful. "While you and I play golf, Fred Brown spends his off-hours researching our past. After reading about possible areas visited by the Vikings and descriptions of America in Viking legends, in 1976 Fred ventured out by boat using Viking descriptions and archaeological finds in that theorized area. He investigated documents from English settlers in the 1600s about the light-skinned Indians, metal and smelting use by early Indians, odd linguistic similarities to northwestern Europeans, and a peculiar resistance to tuberculosis among Indians, genetically common to Europeans. He concluded, and is not the only researcher to do so, that the Narragansett and Wampanoag Indians of the region encountered by early English settlers were, in fact, descendants of mixed Indian/Viking populations." -Editor, Diane Holloway, Ph.D. .

Download or read book The Vinland Sagas written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-09-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Norse Discovery of America written by Paul H. Chapman and published by Atlanta, Ga. : One Candle Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the question of Norse settlement in North America through the use of Vinland sagas, navigation, archaeological evidence, etc.

Download or read book Vinland Revisited written by Shannon Lewis-Simpson and published by St. John's, N.L. : Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador. This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Viking America written by James Robert Enterline and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1972 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the findings of his six-year study on the Norse settlement of America following Leif Eiriksson's explorations

Download or read book Finding Vinland written by Alexandra Gross and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thousand years ago, Norse Explorer Leif Erikson stepped off a ship and onto an unknown land, becoming the first known European to set foot on North American soil. This discovery led to future Viking expeditions from Greenland to Atlantic Canada, potentially lasting several centuries. Though the 13th century Icelandic sagas tell tales of these exploits, corroborating archaeological evidence was not discovered until the site of L'Anse aux Meadows was excavated in the year 1961. In the half-century following this groundbreaking discovery, our understanding of the history of North America has shifted. Further discoveries have been made, but many more remain mysteries waiting to be discovered. Who were the Vikings? Why did they continue to return to North America? Where is the elusive settlement of Hóp? What do these recent discoveries mean for the way we tell Canada's history? We explore the answers to these questions and more in Finding Vinland: Unearthing Evidence for Viking Presence in North America.

Download or read book The Vikings of Vinland written by John F. Meyer and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vikings in Vinland" is a social studies lesson examining new evidence of the early exploration of North America by the Vikings, intended for use with students in grades 6-12. Eric J. Miller and Barbara Holmes Scott created the lesson, which is based on a "New York Times" article, and includes lesson objectives, procedures, and extension activities. The Learning Network, a service of the New York Times Co., provides the lesson online as part of the Daily Lesson Plan Teacher Connections resource.

Download or read book The Norse Discovery of America written by Andrew Fossum and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Norse Discoveries and Explorations in America written by Edward Reman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Viking Discovery of America written by Finn Hødnebø and published by [Oslo, Norway] : J.M. Stenersens. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vinland Sagas written by PENGUIN GROUP (UK) and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 1973-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Norse Discovery of America The historical background and the evidence of the Norse settlement discovered in Newfoundland written by Anne Stine Ingstad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 deals with historical aspects and other matters of significance to an assessment of the Norse discovery of America, providing an elucidation of the background of the Vinland voyages, an interpretation of the sagas and other sources, and investigations of geographical, navigational, climatic, biological, and astronomical concerns.

Download or read book Norse Discoveries and Explorations in America 982 1362 written by Hjalmar Rued Holand and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1969 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Approaches to V nland written by Þórunn Sigurðardóttir and published by University of Iceland Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen papers, from a colloquium held at Reykjavík in 1999, present new readings of the Vinland Sagas and search for evidence of Viking settlements in North America in both the literary and archaeological records.

Download or read book The Norse Discoverers of America written by Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: