| Summary: | Vinland Revisited the Norse World at the Turn of the First Millennium Preface / Paul O'Neill -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: approaches and arguments / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Voyage to Vinland. Scotland, Ireland and Iceland: Norwegian settlers in the ninth century / Peter Sawyer -- Drengs, vikings, countrymen: raiding, conquering and settling in ninth- and tenth-century England / R.A. Hall -- Breaking the monolith: multi-cultural roots of the North Atlantic settlers / Przemysław Urbańczyk -- Scandinavia in the viking age / Birgit Sawyer -- The islands of Scotland: their role in the western voyages / Colleen E. Batey -- The crosses of Columban Iceland: a survey of preliminary research / Kristján Ahronson -- Vinland: the ultimate outpost / Magnus Magnusson -- The early Norse farm buildings in western Greenland: archaeological evidence / Svend E. Albrethsen -- Norse Greenland archaeology: the dialogue between the written and the archaeological records / Jette Arneborg -- The Norse settlements in Greenland from a maritime perspective / Marek E. Jasinski and Fredrik Søreide -- Paleodemography of the Greenland Norse / Niels Lynnerup -- Walrus ivory and other northern luxuries: their importance for Norse voyages and settlements in Greenland and America / Else Roesdahl -- Society, culture and settlement. The vikings - saints or sinners? / Magnus Magnusson -- The later excavations at L'Anse aux Meadows / Birgitta Linderoth Wallace -- L'Anse aux Meadows: rediscovered and remade / Kevin McAleese -- A Norseman's enounter in Vínland, a millennium later / Nicolay Eckhoff -- The 'viking encampment' at L'Anse aux Meadown national historic site of Canada: presenting the past / Darrell Markewitz -- 'Wish you were here.': a thumbnail portrait of the great northern peninsula AD 1000 / Trevor Bell, Joyce B. Macpherson and M.A.P. Renouf -- Viking art at the millennium in the north Atlantic / James Graham-Campbell -- Dressing the dead: gender, identity, and adornment in viking-age ...
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