The Vikings and America
Erik Wahlgren
Founding Editor Glyn Daniel
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For more than a century laymen and scholars have argued over the question of Vinland, that mysterious ‘land of grapevines’ which, according to medieval Icelandic sagas, the Viking Leif Eriksson discovered almost a thousand years ago. Was Vinland real? Do the clues suggesting a North American location point to a specific place? And why did the Vikings eventually leave the New World?
Drawing on fifty years of study and a deep knowledge of the historical and archaeological evidence, Professor Wahlgren addresses these questions in a brilliant and marvellously readable account. Excavations at L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland show that the Vikings were present around ad 1000. But was this Vinland? Professor Wahlgren argues for a location farther south and also suggests Viking exploration far to the north. He also reveals that eventually a worsening climate and attacks by native peoples ended the first European presence in the New World.
The Vikings and America is a historical detective story of the finest order, essential for anyone interested in the Vikings and their exploits. |
|  | | | ISBN 0500281998 | | ISBN-13 978-0500281994 | | | | 24.1 x 15.9 cm | | Paperback | | 192pp | | 103 illustrations, 103 in colour | | First published 2000 | | | | £9.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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