• FIRST EUROPEANS: 3/4: American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock (Author)

  • Jul 29 2024
  • Length: 13 mins
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  • FIRST EUROPEANS: 3/4: American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock (Author)

    https://www.amazon.com/American-Vikings-Sailed-Imaginations-America/dp/1639365354

    The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary. For centuries medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, claimed that Vikings reached North America around the year 1000. This book explores that claim, separating fact from fiction and myth from mischief, to assess the enduring legacy of this claim in America. The search for “American Vikings” connects a vast range of different areas; from the latest archaeological evidence for their actual settlement in North America to the myth-making of nineteenth-century Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest; and from ancient adventurers to the political ideologies in the twenty-first century. It is a journey from the high seas of a millennium ago to the swirling waters and dark undercurrents of the online world of today.

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