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Author Seaver, Kirsten A., 1934-

Title The frozen echo : Greenland and the exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500 / Kirsten A. Seaver
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xvi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Greenland and Vinland: North Atlantic Exploration Five Hundred Years Before the Cabot Voyages -- 2. Social and Economic Conditions in Norse Greenland Before 1350 -- 3. Church and Trade in Norse Greenland Before 1350 -- 4. Ivar Bardarson's Greenland -- 5. The Western Settlement Comes to an End -- 6. Rumors of Trouble in the Eastern Settlement -- 7. England and the Norwegian Colonies, 1400-1450 -- 8. Sailing out of the Middle Ages, 1450-1500 -- 9. Greenland, 1450-1500 -- 10. The Age of Discovery
Summary It is now generally accepted that Leif Eiriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long been a source of disagreement among scholars. Using new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information (much of it in Scandinavian languages that are a bar to most Western historians), this book confronts many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait. The author brings together two distinct but tangential fields of inquiry: the history of medieval Greenland and its connection with the Norse discovery of North America, and fifteenth-century British maritime history and pre-colonial voyages to North America, including that of John Cabot
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-392) and index
Subject Geography, Medieval.
Ships, Medieval.
Travel, Medieval.
SUBJECT Greenland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059221 -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002239
North America http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092455 -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002239
LC no. 95016605
ISBN 0804725144 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804731616 (paperback)