VIKING DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, THE.

Author: Ingstad, Helge & Anne Stine
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2001
No. of pages: 194
Illustrations: 47 Color Illustrations. 61 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Weight:
ISBN: 816047162
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5358

Price: $45.00

From 1961-68, archaeologists and Viking scholars Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad conducted seven expeditions at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The results of their excavations solved one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the location of Vinland and the First European settlement in North America. This volume, illustrated with maps, drawings, and color photos, combines a firsthand account of the Ingstads’ groundbreaking discovery with a history of Viking explorations. It describes how the authors worked from old Viking sagas, existing research, and their own hypothese to piece together the story of a group of Vikings who, faced with crowded conditions in their settlements in Greenland, decided to expand their horizons, eventually discovering a new territory.