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Contact, continuity, and collapse : the Norse colonization of the North Atlantic / edited by James H. Barrett.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 5.
- Studies in the early Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vikings.
- Civilization, Viking.
- Viking antiquities.
- Colonization.
- History.
- Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Scandinavia.
- North Atlantic Region--Colonization.
- North Atlantic Region.
- Greenland--Antiquities.
- Greenland.
- Antiquities.
- North America--Antiquities.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps, plan ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout : Brepols, 2003.
- Summary:
- This collection of ten papers investigates the Norse colonization of the North Atlantic region, starting with Viking expansion in Arctic Norway and ending with a discussion of the longterm implications of medieval Scandinavian exploration of the New World. Each chapter provides a short regional synthesis of the archaeological evidence and, where appropriate, addresses three interrelated themes: the relationship between native and newcomer; the creation of local identities in the settlement period; the relationship between archaeology, history and the construction of modern national identities.
- Contents:
- Belligerent Chieftains and Oppressed Hunters? Changing Conceptions of Interethnic Relationships in Northern Norway during the Iron Age and Early Medieval Period / Bjornar Olsen 9
- The Early Settlement of the Faroe Islands: The Creation of Cultural Identity / Steffen Stummann Hansen 33
- Culture Contact in Viking Age Scotland / James H. Barrett 73
- The Vikings and Ireland: Ethnicity, Identity, and Culture Change / Harold Mytum 113
- Creating a Past: A Historiography of the Settlement of Iceland / Adolf Fridriksson, Orri Vesteinsson 139
- Norse Greenland: Reflections on Settlement and Depopulation / Jette Arneborg 163
- Inuit-Norse Contact in the Smith Sound Region / P. Schledermann, K.M. McCullough 183
- L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland: An Abandoned Experiment / Birgitta Linderoth Wallace 207
- Epilogue: Was There Continuity from Norse to Post-Medieval Explorations of the New World? / Robert McGhee 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 2503512917
- OCLC:
- 51107238
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