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

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Overview

“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
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"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

"For many aspiring writers, this book might well be a model of how to put across a complex theme in an easy-to-read manner. It is sure to provide much new information even to those who specialize in the North Atlantic, and provide topics for discussion, disagreement, and thought, as any well-researched book should do."—Journal of the International Map Collector's Society

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780804731614
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication date: 12/28/1997
  • Edition description: 1
  • Pages: 428
  • Sales rank: 1,157,087
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Kirsten A. Seaver is the translator of the nineteenth-century Norwegian novel The district Governor's Daughter, by Camilla Collett, and the author of a novel, Gudrids saga, that grew out of her research for The Frozen Echo.
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Table of Contents

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Introduction 1
1 Greenland and Vinland: North Atlantic Exploration Five Hundred Years Before the Cabot Voyages 14
2 Social and Economic Conditions in Norse Greenland Before 1350 44
3 Church and Trade in Norse Greenland Before 1350 61
4 Ivar Bardarson's Greenland 91
5 The Western Settlement Comes to an End 113
6 Rumors of Trouble in the Eastern Settlement 139
7 England and the Norwegian Colonies, 1400-1450 159
8 Sailing out of the Middle Ages, 1450-1500 192
9 Greenland, 1450-1500 225
10 The Age of Discovery 254
Appendix A 315
Appendix B 323
Appendix C 329
Notes 331
Works Cited 377
Index 393
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