Download The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, Ca. A.D. 1000-1500 fb2

The author brings together two distinct but tangential fields of inquiry: the history of medieval Greenland and its connections 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.

Author Seaver seems to have ramsacked the archives of Iceland and Norway to compile a thorough history of five centuries of Norse settlement in Greenland, including the famous and ill-fated Norse effort to establish a colony in North America about 1000 AD. There are enough Olafs and Sigrids here to people Lake Wobegone.

The Frozen Echo book. 1000-1500 as Want to Read

The Frozen Echo book. 1000-1500 as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read.

Библиографические данные. The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, Ca. . Издание: иллюстрированное, перепечатанное.

1000-1500 (Paperback or Softback). A Matter of Dignity: Changing the World of the Disabled (Paperback or Softback). Music Outside the Lines: Ideas for Composing Music in K-12 Music Classrooms (Pap. ). См. подробнee. The author brings together two distinct fields of inquiry: the history of medieval Greenland and its connection with the Norse discovery of North America, and 15th-century British maritime history and pre-colonial voyages to North America, including that of John Cabot.

of the voyages of exploration that began around . Kirsten A. Seaver is the translator of the nineteenth-century Norwegian novel The district Governor's Daughter, by Camilla Collett. Country of Publication. 1500, the routes by which information concerning previous voyages traveled, the history before Cabot of the advance of English fishing fleets from Icelandic waters to the coasts of Labrador, and the influence of the roman Catholic Church on Norse Greenland.

North American History Books. If you are at all interested in the Viking history in Greenland and North America, this is essential reading. This button opens a dialog that displays additional images for this product with the option to zoom in or out. Tell us if something is incorrect. The Frozen Echo : Greenland and the Exploration of North America, Ca. Well-written and thoughtful, there is almost certain to be new information for you. Very highly recommended.

Seaver 1996, p. 205, 229: 205: a reference to sailors in Bergen in 1484 who had visited Greenland (Seaver speculates that they may have been . 205, 229: 205: a reference to sailors in Bergen in 1484 who had visited Greenland (Seaver speculates that they may have been English); 229: archaeological evidence of contact with Europe towards the end of the 15th century. Seaver, Kirsten A. (1996). Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3161-4.

It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson 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.

Abstract views reflect the number of visits to the article landing page.