The Frozen Echo

"Of major importance, this book fills a serious gap in scholarly studies of European expansion. It brings new understandings to the relationships between Norse discoveries and the great voyages of Renaissance discovery in the North Atlantic. Furthermore, it is fascinating reading, written in a lively and very readable style. It should interest the general public and amateur historians as well as scholars."

Autorentext
Kirsten A. Seaver is the translator of the nineteenth-century Norwegian novel The district Governor's Daughter, by Camilla Collett.

Klappentext
"This is a fascinating book, not only for those engaged in Atlantic studies or early American history. The clear and precise text, the skillful management of complex themes, and above all the sympathetic approach to human endeavors, coupled with a skeptical view of earlier theories and an open mind to new ideas, make it as easy to read as a novel."--The Times Higher Education Supplement
"Of major importance, this book fills a serious gap in scholarly studies of European expansion. It brings new understandings to the relationships between Norse discoveries and the great voyages of Renaissance discovery in the North Atlantic. Furthermore, it is fascinating reading, written in a lively and very readable style. It should interest the general public and amateur historians as well as scholars."--Dr. Helen Walls, British Map Library, British Museum

Zusammenfassung
Using new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait.

Inhalt
Illustrations; 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; 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.

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