Research Catalog

Title

Contact, continuity, and collapse : the Norse colonization of the North Atlantic / edited by James H. Barrett.

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barrett, James H. (James Harold)

Description

xi, 254 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; 5

Subject

• Vikings > North Atlantic Region
• Land settlement patterns > North Atlantic Region
• Excavations (Archaeology) > North Atlantic Region
• Viking antiquities
• North Atlantic Region > Discovery and exploration > Norse
• North Atlantic Region > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Introduction / James H. Barrett -- Belligerent chieftains and oppressed hunters? Changing conceptions of interethnic relationships in northern Norway during the Iron Age and early Medieval period / Bjørnar Olsen -- The early settlement of the Faroe Islands: the creation of cultural identity / Steffen Stummann Hansen -- Culture contact in Viking age Scotland / James H. Barrett -- The Vikings and Ireland: ethnicity, identity, and culture change / Harold Mytum -- Creating a past: a historiography of the settlement of Iceland / Adolf Friđriksson and Orri Vésteinsson -- Norse Greenland: reflections on settlement and depopulation / Jette Arneborg -- Inuit-Norse contact in the Smith Sound region / P. Schledermann and K.M. McCullough -- L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland: an abandoned experiment / Birgitta Linderoth Wallace -- Epilogue: Was there continuity from Norse to post-Medieval explorations of the New World? / Robert McGhee.

ISBN

2503512917

LCCN

2004399598

OCLC

• ocm51107238
• SCSB-1326208

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library