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Author : Hjalmar Rued Holand
Publisher : New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Westward from Vinland written by Hjalmar Rued Holand and published by New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce. This book was released on 1940 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. p. 318-334.
Author : Annette Kolodny
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352869
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book In Search of First Contact written by Annette Kolodny and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.
Author : Birgitta Linderoth Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780919735095
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Westward Vikings written by Birgitta Linderoth Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141991550
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Vinland Sagas written by Leifur Eiricksson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.
Author : Makoto Yukimura
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
ISBN 13 : 1612628184
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Vinland Saga written by Makoto Yukimura and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITHIN THE KING’S GRASP As Canute plots to become ruler of the entire Danish world, Thorfinn’s only ambition is to see a harvest profitable enough to buy his own life back. But the fates of prince and slave will come together once again, as Canute plans to seize Ketil Farm from its kindhearted master. What sinister tricks does the have up his sleeve, and could they dash Thorfinn’s hopes for freedom? Meanwhile, Einar’s infatuation with Arnheid takes an unexpected turn when her former husband – an escaped slave – barges onto the farm, insisting she run away with him… "A fascinating, violent, and moving story [that’s] firmly among other timeless classics… Seriously, I don’t know how many different ways I can say this manga is worth reading." -Kotaku
Author : Tim Wallace-Murphy
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1637480121
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Templars in America written by Tim Wallace-Murphy and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archival and archaeological sources two historians reveal the hidden history of the Knights Templar and their travels to America in pre-Columbian America and their influence on the Founding Fathers. Templars in America reveals the story of two leading European Templar families who combined forces to create a new commonwealth in America nearly a century before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Henry St. Clair of the Orkney Islands, then part of Normandy, and Carlo Zeno, a Venetian trader, made peaceful and mutually beneficial contact with the Mi'kmaq people of what is now Canada. Proof of their travels is carved in stone on both sides of the Atlantic and can be found in documentary evidence borne out by a strong oral tradition that has withstood the test of time. Historians Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins draw on archival and archaeological evidence to prove the Templar voyage. They then demonstrate how this early contact with the Americas ties into the centuries-long development of the Templars and Freemasonry, which in turn shaped the thinking of the founding fathers--and the American Constitution. Wallace-Murphy and Hopkins also reveal the continuous history of American exploration from the time of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, through the age of the Vikings. Templars in America is a wild ride from the golden age of exploration to the founding of the United States.
Author : Stuart W. Mirsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716455629
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)
Download or read book The King of Vinland's Saga written by Stuart W. Mirsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vikings and Indians vie for supremacy on the shores of North America -- five hundred years before Columbus and the Spanish Conquistadors arrived.
Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848549407
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Vinland written by George Mackay Brown and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fourth novel, George Mackay Brown takes us to an Orkney torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Set in the early 11th Century, it tells the story of Ranald Sigmundson, who turns his back on a successful life of political intrigues and battles to design a ship to take him on a journey even greater than the first great voyage of his life, the one to Vinland.
Author : John Logan Allen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803210158
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book North American Exploration written by John Logan Allen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes that will encompass North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than an assessment of historical events, these volumes portray the process of exploration. Without forgetting the romance of exploration, the authors recognize that exploration is a great deal more than the adventures themselves. All explorers are conditioned by the time, place, and circumstances of their efforts; these determine objectives, the behavior of explorers, and the consequences of their discoveries. In this first volume we follow the expansion of knowledge from the world of the pre-Columbian explorers through the end of the sixteenth century, with each topic addressed by an expert, and all fitting into a coherent whole. The volume is enhanced by a discussion of the geographical knowledge and beliefs of the native peoples of the North American continent, and how this knowledge influenced the efforts and understanding of the Europeans.
Author : Tim Wallace-Murphy
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1637480113
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Uncharted written by Tim Wallace-Murphy and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2023 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Americas have had native groups living there for more than 10,000 years, but Columbus was surely not their first visitors. This book covers a range of cultures who had seemingly been visiting the Americas since long before Columbus. Evidence is explored of potential Roman and Phoenician shipwrecks off the coast of South America through to Celtic and Norse exploration of Northern America. With source materials dating back through millennia, including very recent finds, this book will induce the reader to think about a side of history still readily dismissed by some"--
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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906987
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
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.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Records of the Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara Goranson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008455708
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1) written by Tamara Goranson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...
Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351305980
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Terra Cognita written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?In Terra Cognita, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that physical encounters are only one part of the complex, multifaceted process of discovery. Such encounters must be complemented by an understanding of the true identity of what is being discovered. The small group of islands claimed by Columbus to have been discovered off the shores of Asia was a far cry from what we now call America. The discovery of the New World was not achieved in a single day but was a slow process--mental as well as physical--that lasted almost three hundred years. By celebrating 1492 as a year of discovery, we inevitably distort the reality of history.In vividly documenting how a slowly emerging New World gradually forced itself into Europe's consciousness, Zerubavel shows that Columbus did not discover America on October 12, 1492. Supplemented by fascinating old maps and a new preface written for this paperback edition, Terra Cognita will be of interest to historians, geographers, cognitive scientists, sociologists, and students of culture.
Author : Douglas Hunter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077355534X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Beardmore written by Douglas Hunter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the discovery was exposed as an unquestionable hoax, tarnishing the reputation of the museum director, Charles Trick Currelly, who had acquired the relics and insisted on their authenticity. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Douglas Hunter reconstructs the notorious hoax and its many players. Beardmore unfolds like a detective story as the author sifts through the voluminous evidence and follows the efforts of two unlikely debunkers, high-school teacher Teddy Elliott and government geologist T.L. Tanton, who find themselves up against Currelly and his scholarly allies. Along the way, the controversy draws in a who’s who of international figures in archaeology, Scandinavian studies, and the museum world, including anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, whose mid-1950s crusade against the find’s authenticity finally convinced scholars and curators that the grave was a fraud. Shedding light on museum practices and the state of the historical and archaeological professions in the mid-twentieth century, Beardmore offers an unparalleled view inside a major museum scandal to show how power can be exercised across professional networks and hamper efforts to arrive at the truth.
Author : Colin Taber
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781451569667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The United States of Vinland written by Colin Taber and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What if the Vikings who settled Greenland and went on to reach North America at the turn of the first millennium had stayed? Eskil, orphaned in war but now a man, is leading his followers across the ocean to found a settlement dedicated to Asgard's gods in the newly discovered lands of the west. There, after tests, adventures and challenges, he will leave a legacy that will grow to become the greatest nation the world has ever seen. Welcome to Norse America." -- Provided by publisher.
Author : O. R. Dathorne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313033803
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Imagining the World written by O. R. Dathorne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-03-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the New World encounter they were repositioned to North and South America. The book examines the way in which Arabs and Africans are conscripted into the view of the world and takes an unusual, non-Eurocentric viewpoint of how Africans journeyed to the New World and Europe, participating in, what may be considered, an early stage of world exploration and discovery. The study concludes by looking at European travel literature from the early journeys of St. Brendan, through the Viking voyages and up to Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville. In all these instances, the encounters seem to justify mythical belief. Dathorne's interest in the subject is both intellectual and passionate since, coming from Guyana, he was very much part of this malformed Weltschmerz.
