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| Title, Author, Edition | Date | Language | Format | Locations |
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| Contact, continuity, and collapse : the Norse colonization of the North Atalantic / edited by James H. Barrett. | ||||
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Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols,
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Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 5
254 pages |
2003 | English | Book; Illustrated | 2 |
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As with most collections of scholarly essays some of the contributions to this book are outstanding and others are rather boring. The article about the only-known Norse settlement in North America, L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, is clear, concise, well illustrated (especially a good map) and tells you about all you need to know about the site and its history. The article about the failure of the Greenland colony is also very good, and the epilog introduces the speculation that the Norse colonies may have been impacted by the expanding Atlantic empires of the British, Spanish and others.
I was less interested in the articles about the Norse interactions with the Saami (we used to call them Lapps, but I guess that term is now politically incorrect), the settlement of the Faroe islands, and the Norse in Iceland, Ireland, and Scotland. Some of these articles are are bit heavy on archaelogy for my taste, but the quality of the scholarship seems impeccable. The general tenor of the book is conservative with authors sticking to what can be proven or logically surmised based on the evidence.
This is a worthwhile book of 250 pages with good maps and illustrations and bibliographies for each of the nine essays and the introduction. It's well worth your time to read the essays which interest you.
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