SoundTrek GREAT CIRCLE
Suggested READING LIST
for further information about the Viking discovery of the Americas:
Fitzhugh, Wm & Ward, Eliz(eds)
Vikings the North Atlantic Saga, Smithsonian Institution Press 2000. Contributors include:
Peter Schlederman.
Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel-The Fates of Human Society, Norton 1997
Ingstad, Anne Stine: The Discovery of a Norse Settlement in North America, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1977
Westward to Vinland, Macmillan 1969
Munn, W.A: Wineland Voyages, (reprint of 1946 publication) Historic Sites Assoc of Nfld & Labrador 1992.
Ancient cultures, Bountiful Seas, Historic Sites Assoc of Nfld & Labrador 1999.
Smiley, Jane: The Greenlanders, Fawcett 1996..
Clark, Joan: Eriksdottir, Macmillan 1994.(historical novel about Lief Eriksson's half-sister Freydis)
Clark, Joan: The Dream Carvers, Penguin 1997.(historical novel about the Greenland Vikings)
Skelton, R.A: The Vinland Map and The Tartar Relation, Yale University Press 1965.
Johnston, George: Thrand of Gotu, Porcupine's Quill 1994. (New translation of The Greenlanders Saga)
Magnussen, M. & Paulsen, H: The Vinland Sagas, Penguin 1966.
Mowat, Farley: WestViking, M & S, 1965.
Rosing, Jens: Things and Wonders - Norsemen in Greenland and America, Gavia 2000.
Severin, Tim: The Brendan Voyage, Abacus 1998 (reprint) (sailing a medieval boat across the North Atlantic)
Horwood, Joan: Viking Discovery, originally published by Jesperson Press 1995. Now available from: ltizzard@roadrunner.nf.net
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