The identification of Vinland
During the past 200 years, few informed persons have doubted that abouta.d. 1000 the Norse attempted to colonize a part of the New World that theycalled Vinland. But the location of Vinland and the meaning of the word itself have long been subjects of dispute among scholars, and the lack of incontro...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400058782 2024-03-03T08:48:16+00:00 The identification of Vinland Cooke, Alan 1965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400058782 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400058782 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 12, issue 80, page 583-587 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1965 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400058782 2024-02-08T08:43:24Z During the past 200 years, few informed persons have doubted that abouta.d. 1000 the Norse attempted to colonize a part of the New World that theycalled Vinland. But the location of Vinland and the meaning of the word itself have long been subjects of dispute among scholars, and the lack of incontrovertible evidence of Norse occupation has permitted a proliferation of hypotheses. Among the earliest speculators in this matter were Torfaeus (1705) and Forster (1784), but the initiation of spirited controversy may be credited to Rafn (1837), who first forcibly drew public attention to the fact that it was the Norse who, some 500 years before Columbus, discovered the New World. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Cambridge University Press Polar Record 12 80 583 587 |
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During the past 200 years, few informed persons have doubted that abouta.d. 1000 the Norse attempted to colonize a part of the New World that theycalled Vinland. But the location of Vinland and the meaning of the word itself have long been subjects of dispute among scholars, and the lack of incontrovertible evidence of Norse occupation has permitted a proliferation of hypotheses. Among the earliest speculators in this matter were Torfaeus (1705) and Forster (1784), but the initiation of spirited controversy may be credited to Rafn (1837), who first forcibly drew public attention to the fact that it was the Norse who, some 500 years before Columbus, discovered the New World. |
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