In the western seas, Scandinavian expansion touched practically every possible point. Settlers poured into Iceland from at least about 900, and, from Iceland, colonies were founded inGreenlandand attempted inNorth America. The same period saw settlements arise in the Orkney, Faroe, andShetlandislands...
Archaeology: The Viking Settlements of North America. FREDERICK J. POHLNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1525/aa.1973.75.6.02a01300BIRGITTA L. WALLACEJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.American Anthropologist
In the western seas, Scandinavian expansion touched practically every possible point. Settlers poured into Iceland from at least about 900, and, from Iceland, colonies were founded inGreenlandand attempted inNorth America. The same period saw settlements arise in the Orkney, Faroe, andShetlandislands...
seafarers, merchants, and warriors from the Nordic countries. They lived during what is known as the Viking Era, which lasted from approximately 800 CE to 1050 CE. Vikings embarked on expeditions to other parts of Europe and beyond to trade and form new settlements, but also to conquer and ...
settling on the southwest peninsula in a place he called Reykjavik or Cove of Smoke. Many other families from Norway, Scotland and Ireland followed. The Icelandic sagas and Landnamabok or Book of the Settlements, written 200 years later, describes the early settling of Iceland. For the next ...
$6.95 and Frederick J. Pohl. The Viking Settlements of North America. New York: Clarkson N. Potter; distrib. by Crow 来自 国家科技图书文献中心 喜欢 0 阅读量: 30 作者: AR Lewis 摘要: Cite SaveSavingSavedError saving. Try again? More Fewer DOI: 10.1086/ahr/79.4.1247 年份: 1974 ...
placed the study of environment as a key priority, in particular in the ecologically vulnerable North Atlantic settlements. Discussing future directions, we call for alignment between societal/economic and individual/cultural perspectives, and for more ethically grounded research. We point to diaspora ...
The best-known "Viking" artifact in North America is the Kensington Stone. A Swedish immigrant farmer named Olof Ohman found this stone slab near Kensington, Minnesota, in 1898. Its runic inscription, dated on the stone to 1362, tells of party of "8 Goths and 22 Norwegians on an explorat...