Vikings
Subtitle: the North Atlantic saga
By: edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Elisabeth I. Ward.
Contributors: Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-; Ward, Elisabeth I.; National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of Natural History
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Vikings; Northmen; Vikings -- Material culture -- Catalogs; North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse; Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse; Greenland -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse
Genres: Catalogs
Notes: "An exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2000-September 5, 2000."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-413) and index.
Table of contents: title: Puffins, ringed pins, and runestones : the Viking passage to America / W.W. Fitzhugh; title: I. Viking homelands.  Scandinavia in the Viking age / P.H. Sawyer; title: The Scandinavian landscape : people and environment / N.S. Price; title: Farming and daily life / S.H.H. Kaland, I. Martens; title: Religion, art, and runes / A. Gräslund; title: Shamanism and the Vikings? / N.S. Price; title: Political organization and social life / L. Jørgensen; title: From warrior to trade economy / L. Hedeager; title: Ships and navigation / A.E. Christensen; title: II. Viking raiders.  The Viking age in Europe / C.D. Morris; title: The Eastern route : Finland in the Viking age / T. Edgren; title: "Laid waste, plundered, and burned" : Vikings in Frankia / N.S. Price; title: Viking expansion and cultural blending in Britain and Ireland / C.E. Batey, J. Sheehan; title: III. Vikings in the North Atlantic.  Sagas of Western expansion / H. Ólafsson; title: The North Atlantic environment / P.C. Buckland; title: Vikings in the Faeroe Islands / S.V. Arge; title: The archaeology of Landnám : early settlement in Iceland / O. Vésteinsson; title: The Icelandic Commonwealth period : building a new society / H. Thorláksson; title: Eddas and Sagas in medieval Iceland / G. Sigurðsson; title: IV. Viking America.  1000 A.D. : East meets West / P. Schledermann; title: Skraeling : first peoples of Helluland, Markland, and Vinland / D. Odess, S. Loring, W.W. Fitzhugh; title: A Norse penny from Main / S.L. Cox; title: The Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows / B.L. Wallace; title: Jasper Cores form L'Anse aux Meadows / K.P. Smith; title: An introduction to the Vinland sagas / G. Sigurðsson : Greelanders' saga ; Erik the Red's saga; title: V. Norse Greenland.  From Vikings to Norseman / J. Arneborg, K.A. Seaver; title: Life and death in Norse Greenland / N. Lynnerup; title: The farm beneath the sand / J. Berglund; title: Greenland and Europe / J. Arnborg; title: Natives and Norse in Greenland / H.C. Gulløv; title: The demise of Norse Greenland / T.H. McGovern; title: The Norse legacy in Greenland / H.C. Petersen; title: VI. Viking legacy.  Celebrating the Viking millennium in America / W.W. Fitzhugh, E.I. Ward; title: The old Norse dream / C. Orrling; title: Reflections on an icon : Vikings in American culture / E.I. Ward; title: Stumbles and pitfalls in the search for Viking America / B.L. Wallace, W.W. Fitzhugh; title: The Newport Tower / J. Hertz; title: Sagas and science : climate and human impacts in the North Atlantic / A.E.J. Ogilvie, T.H. McGovern; title: Travel the Viking Trail : tourism and Viking heritage / I.A. Morrison.