The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)
——( 2005 ) ‘Greenland irrigation systems on a west Nordic background’, in J. Klápsˇteˇ (ed.) Water management in medieval rural ...
Roussell, Aa. ( 1941 ) Farms and Churches in the Mediaeval Norse Settlements of Greenland (Meddelelser om Grønland 89 ), Copenha ...
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE ( 1 ) THE NORTH ATLANTIC FARM AN ENVIRONMENTAL VIEW Paul Buckland V iking expansion across the North Atlanti ...
exploited, with seal, seabird and fish forming a significant component of the diet, and a similar pattern has recently emerged f ...
1998 ), and seaweed must have provided a source of essential salts for balancing the Norse diet. That other scourge of humans in ...
have differed significantly from contemporary urban Oslo (Kenward 1980 ), York (Ken- ward and Hall 1995 ) or Dublin (Coope 1981 ...
Buckland, P.C. and Perry, D. ( 1989 ) ‘Ectoparasites of sheep from Stóraborg, Iceland and their interpretation: piss, parasites ...
V 51 : economic change at a chieftain’s farm in west Greenland’, Arctic Anthropology, 33 : 94 – 122. McGovern, T.H., Perdikaris, ...
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR THE DISCOVERY OF VINLAND Birgitta Wallace I n 1837 Carl Christian Rafn published the Vinland sagas in his Ant ...
fourteenth century (Helgi Þorláksson in Wawn and Þórunn Sigurðardóttir 2001 : 69 ), and in Erik’s Saga (AM 544 and 557 ). Erik’s ...
these resources so that they could be brought back to Greenland: ‘They did nothing but explore the land’ (ES and HB); ‘for the p ...
Although L’Anse aux Meadows is unquestionably Norse and of an early eleventh- century date (the date is based on architectural e ...
house (B), two sunken huts (E and G) and one rounded hut of even simpler construction (C). All huts are equipped with fireplaces ...
no pillaging took place. However, unlike the conditions in those winter camps, the L’Anse aux Meadows site served as a port-of-t ...
Sigurðardóttir 2001 : 173 – 88 ). Under these circumstances winters would have been snow free, and the livestock could have graz ...
Given that L’Anse aux Meadows is Leifsbúðir–Straumfjo ̨rðr, it follows that Markland is the central forest belt of Labrador, chi ...
Gísli Sigurðsson ( 2004 ) The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition. A Discourse on Method (Milman Parry Collection of Oral ...
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR ( 1 ) NORSE AND NATIVES IN THE EASTERN ARCTIC Patricia Sutherland W hen the Norse lived in Greenland between ...
commodities for use in their trade with Europe. The Norðrsetr is usually considered to be the western coast of Greenland to the ...
Island in Arctic Canada, was that of the Inuit. The dwellings and middens of the Thule people on both sides of Smith Sound have ...
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