Westward Vikings
Subtitle: the saga of L'Anse aux Meadows
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
Published: 2012
Place of publication: St John's, NL, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 127
First sentence: During the era we call the Viking Age (c. 800 to 1050), people from modern-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden travelled south and east from their homelands to northern Africa, Russia and the Middle East, and westwards to Great Britain, most of coastal Europe, to Orkney, Shetland and the Faeroes, to Iceland and Greenland, to North America.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
title: 7; label: Introduction
title: 9; label: The Vínland Sagas
title: 15; label: What Do the Sagas Relate About the Vínland Voyages?
title: 16; label: Grænlendinga saga: The Greenlanders' Saga
title: 16; label: Eiríks saga rauða: Eiríkr the Red's Saga
title: 20; label: The Nature of the Sagas
title: 22; label: How Truthful Are the Sagas?
title: 25; label: The L'Anse aux Meadows Site
title: 27; label: Discovery of the Site
title: 29; label: The Excavations
title: 30; label: The Conservation and Protection of the Site
title: 33; label: The Settlement
title: 35; label: The Buildings
title: 38; label: Construction of a L'Anse aux Meadows House
title: 50; label: House Furnishings
title: 55; label: Activities on the Site
title: 58; label: Iron Manufacture at L'Anse aux Meadows
title: 59; label: Woodworking
title: 64; label: Textile Production
title: 68; label: When Was the Site Occupied?
title: 70; label: The Architecture
title: 70; label: The Artifacts
title: 70; label: Radiocarbon Analysis
title: 71; label: What Type of Settlement was L'Anse aux Meadows
title: 74; label: How Many People Were There?
title: 78; label: Who Were the People at L'Anse aux Meadows?
title: 79; label: Social Structure of the Settlement
title: 79; label: Where Did They Come From
title: 82; label: Religious Beliefs
title: 82; label: How Long Did The Norse Stay At L'Anse aux Meadows
title: 84; label: Who Else Was There?
title: 85; label: Maritime archaic, c. 3950 BC
title: 85; label: Groswater Palaeoeskimo, c. 1000 to 400 BC
title: 85; label: Dorset Palaeoeskimo, c. AD 400 to 800
title: 87; label: 'Recent' Indian, c. 730 to 900
title: 87; label: Proto-Innu/Beothuk, c. AD 1200 to 1600
title: 87; label: Later European Settlers, Sixteenth Century to 1904
title: 89; label: Later Aboriginal Visitors
title: 89; label: Abandonment of the Site
title: 91; label: Why Did They Leave?
title: 91; label: Is L'Anse aux Meadows Vínland?
title: 97; label: Identification of Hóp
title: 98; label: How Far Did They Go?
title: 100; label: Where is Vínland?
title: 101; label: Where Are Helluland and Markland?
title: 102; label: Were There Other Norse Settlements?
title: 104; label: Finding Truth Within the Sagas
title: 106; label: The Village of L'Anse aux Meadows, c. 1835 to Present
title: 109; label: Glimpses From the Village
title: 112; label: Buried Treasures
title: 116; label: L'Anse aux Meadows: A Canadian and World Heritage Site
title: 119; label: Appendices
title: 117; label: A Spectrum of Archaeological Techniques Employed at L'Anse aux Meadows
title: 117; label: Glossary
title: 120; label: Select Bibliography
title: 122