Expensive Errors or Rational Choices: the Pioneer Fringe in Late Viking Age Iceland

• Main Authors: Vesteinsson, Orri, Church, Mike, Dugmore, Andrew, McGovern, Thomas, Newton, Anthony
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CUNY Academic Works 2014
• Subjects: Iceland; Viking Age; highland; settlement; abandonment; Archaeological Anthropology; Medieval History; Krókdalur; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_pubs/640; https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1680&context=hc_pubs

Just as the colonies established on the North Atlantic islands in the Viking Age were peripheral to Europe, so these islands had their own peripheral areas. In Iceland the highland margins have long been a focus of archaeological research and the prevailing view has been that highland settlement fai...