The Last Vikings de Kirsten A. Seaver

The Last Vikings

Kirsten A. Seaver

Drawing on the author's knowledge of the culture and history of the region as well as the evidence from archaeology, medieval history and the evocative Sagas, this title weaves together an history of Vikings.

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Paperback (1)	126^.64 lei 6-8 săpt.
Bloomsbury Publishing – 18 sep 2019	126^.64 lei 6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1)	289^.16 lei 6-8 săpt.
I. B. Tauris & Company – 29 iun 2010	289^.16 lei 6-8 săpt.

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Express

Paperback (1)

126^.64 lei 6-8 săpt.

Bloomsbury Publishing – 18 sep 2019

126^.64 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

289^.16 lei 6-8 săpt.

I. B. Tauris & Company – 29 iun 2010

289^.16 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Kirsten A. Seaver is an independent historian who has taught at the University of Stanford. She has also worked as a novelist and a translator and her work has been published extensively in both English and Norwegian. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, her previous publications include 'Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map' and 'The Frozen Echo'.

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IntroductionChapter 1: No forwarding addressPhysical description of Greenland . The push westwards . Additional source material . Modern voices of gloom and doom. Chapter 2: Eirik the Red knew where to go Medieval geographical knowledge . Eirik the Red goes west . Norse navigation .A daring real estate venture . Dividing up a new land . Eirik the Red settles in .Establishing homes in the wilderness . Brattahlid then and now. Chapter 3: Forging a new homeland A new society takes shape . Putting food on the table . The role of domestic animals . Adapting to Greenland . Cows versus sheep and goats . Cultural distinctiveness .Fuel . Slaves and hired hands . Social structure . Voyages to the High Arctic .Missing resources. Chapter 4: Leif Eiriksson explores another new landNo game of chance . The men in charge . Reaching the other side . Life at L'Anse aux Meadows . Discovering Vínland grapes . Follow-up voyages . Encountering Vínland natives . The aftermath.Chapter 5: The fictional Norse in North America Prince Madoc of Wales . Earl Henry Sinclair of Orkney . The Westford stone . The Newport Tower . The Kensington Rune Stone . The Spirit Pond stones . The Vinland Map . Norumbega. Chapter 6: Who were the Skrælings? The spherical world picture . Monstrous races of the Far North . The West had finally met the East . Norse interaction with Arctic natives.Chapter 7: Relations with Church and CrownGeographical independence . Christianity reaches the Northwest Atlantic . Imported from The British Isles . Organized Christianity . Greenland becomes a diocese . Greenland priests . Royal pressure from Norway . The sea was still the highway . Small royal impact on Greenland . Tithes and taxes increase . Ívar Bárdarson's mission . No more resident Gardar bishops . Did the Greenlanders lose their Christian faith? Chapter 8: Foreign tradeMarketable Greenland commodities . Walrus ivory kept its value . Early markets and trade routes . Consolidation of the European markets . The Hanseatic League . Norse Greenland and Norwegian trade legislation . The art of 'drifting off.' Chapter 9: Contact with IcelandDisease: an unwelcome travel companion . Norwegian politics in Iceland . End of the Icelandic commonwealth . Iceland under the new rule . Björn Einarsson 'Jerusalem-Farer' and his circle . Sigrid Björnsdaughter . The Black Death . Thorstein Olafsson plans his future . Leaving Greenland in 1410 . From Norway to Iceland . Another transfer of royal power. Chapter 10: The English in the North AtlanticEnglish focus on Iceland . King Eirik comes to power . Thorstein Olafsson's circle and the English . Moving westwards . Where was Thorstein in 1419-1420? . Tantalizing archaeological evidence . In Iceland meanwhile - - . A further sea change . Sharpened conflict with the English . The English tighten their grip . Passing the generational torch . The English encounter a headwind.Chapter 11: Where did the Norse Greenlanders go?Papal laments . Other end game scenarios . Changes in animal husbandry . Choices . Greenland and the North Atlantic economy . John Cabot's successors . The early cartographic record . Claudius Clavus . Larsen's fantasy . Portuguese experience and the 1502 'Cantino' map . English experience and the 1507/08 Ruysch map . João Fernandes, llavrador . João's Bristol contacts . Tracing João Fernandes and Richard Warde.Chapter 12: Who went looking for them?Erik Valkendorf's Greenland plans . Erik Valkendorf and Ívar Bárdarson . Ívar's wider sphere of influence . The 'new' Greenland emerges . Misplaced, but not forgotten . Early post-Valkendorf attempts to reach the Norse . Concerted efforts by Christian IV . Claus Christoffersen Lyschander (1558-1624) . Changing priorities . Hans Egede (1686-17