num_pages: 432
description: Replete with color photographs, drawings, and maps of Viking sites, artifacts, and landscapes, this book celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. The book's contributors chart the spread of marauders and traders in Europe as well as the expansion of farmers and explorers throughout the North Atlantic and into the New World. They show that Norse contacts with Native American groups were more extensive than has previously been believed, but that the outnumbered Europeans never established more than temporary settlements in North America.
language: English
title: Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
titlecomplete: Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
genres: Scandinavian Literature, Medieval, Essays, Research, History, European History, Historical, Nonfiction, Archaeology, Art
ratings_count: 289
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Society for American Archaeology Book Award
publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press