Stumped in the Sagas: Woodland and Wooden Tools in the Íslendingasögur

• Main Author: Conway, Rebecca Taylor, 1992-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Íslensk miðaldafræði; Íslensk fornbókmenntasaga; Fornleifafræði; Skógar; Svæði; Wyatt; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/22708

Recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental studies have questioned the degree and uniformity of woodland decline during Iceland’s settlement years (Dugmore et al., 2006; Lawson et al., 2007; Smith, 1995). Not only does deforestation seem to be a more temporally and geographically nuanced process t...