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xvi, 407 pages : 24 cm 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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-392) and index Greenland and Vinland: North Atlantic Exploration Five Hundred Years Before the Cabot Voyages -- Social and Economic Conditions in Norse Greenland Before 1350 -- Church and Trade in Norse Greenland Before 1350 -- Ivar Bardarson's Greenland -- Th

Author

Seaver, Kirsten A., 1934-

Publisher

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804725149

Subjects

History, Travel, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24