3/4: American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock (Author)
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
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3/4: American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/American-Vikings-Sailed-Imaginations-America/dp/1639365354
The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary. For centuries medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, claimed that Vikings reached North America around the year 1000. This book explores that claim, separating fact from fiction and myth from mischief, to assess the enduring legacy of this claim in America. The search for “American Vikings” connects a vast range of different areas; from the latest archaeological evidence for their actual settlement in North America to the myth-making of nineteenth-century Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest; and from ancient adventurers to the political ideologies in the twenty-first century. It is a journey from the high seas of a millennium ago to the swirling waters and dark undercurrents of the online world of today.
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| 0:33.7 | His new book is American Vikings, how the North sailed into the lands and imaginations of America. |
| 0:39.2 | The books to depend upon are Eric the Red Saga in the 13th century and Saga of Greenlanders in the 14th century. |
| 0:46.1 | And boy are they dramatic. |
| 0:47.6 | Martin, this is wonderful to speak of the drama presented. Men and women, a Lady Macbeth figure, you've mentioned her, |
| 0:55.8 | Freitas, daughter of Eric the Red. And then the men come and go, but there are not enough |
| 1:01.8 | women for them more tension they are |
| 1:04.9 | looking however always for new lands they're looking for timber that goes back to |
| 1:10.1 | Greenland because timbers in short supply in Greenland and we come to a place that has been |
| 1:15.8 | identified over these last two centuries as a possible outpost, a base for Eric Eric for Leaf Ericsson and his crew. |
| 1:26.0 | Los Almeadow where is that Martin? |
| 1:30.0 | Loves or meadow is in Newfoundland in Northern Newfoundland and excavations there in the 1960s have |
| 1:36.3 | revealed clear definite proof of North presence in North America. Four complexes of halls and buildings were found there. |
| 1:46.8 | Some iron working was going on there as well. The side of the buildings are clearly similar |
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