A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.
A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.
List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Note on the Problematics of Word Choice and Usage xv Prologue. The Autobiography of a Book 1 1. The Politics of American Prehistory: Isolation versus Contact 19 2. Contact and Conflict: What the Vinland Sagas Tell Us 44 3. Anglo-America's Viking Heritage: A Nineteenth-Century romance 103 4. The New England Poets of Viking America and the Emergence of the Plastic Viking 151 5. The Challenge to Columbus and the Romance Undone 213 6. "We could not discerne any token or signe, that ever any Christian had been before": The Phantom of First Contact 257 7. Contact and Conflict Again: What Native Stories Tell Us 280 Epilogue. History Lessons 327 Notes 335 Works Consulted 379 Index 407
List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Note on the Problematics of Word Choice and Usage xv Prologue. The Autobiography of a Book 1 1. The Politics of American Prehistory: Isolation versus Contact 19 2. Contact and Conflict: What the Vinland Sagas Tell Us 44 3. Anglo-America's Viking Heritage: A Nineteenth-Century romance 103 4. The New England Poets of Viking America and the Emergence of the Plastic Viking 151 5. The Challenge to Columbus and the Romance Undone 213 6. "We could not discerne any token or signe, that ever any Christian had been before": The Phantom of First Contact 257 7. Contact and Conflict Again: What Native Stories Tell Us 280 Epilogue. History Lessons 327 Notes 335 Works Consulted 379 Index 407
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