Viking sailing routes

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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: Birgitta Wallace, 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

Ingstad, Helge: Westward to Vinland, Macmillan 1969

Munn, W.A: Wineland Voyages, (reprint of 1946 publication) Historic Sites Assoc of Nfld & Labrador 1992.

Renouf, Priscilla: 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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