The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America

Introduction HOME TRUTHS AND FAR HORIZONS
I. Causes and Effects 1
II. Ships and Seafaring 5
III. History and Historiography 14
IV. The Northern World-Picture 16
Part One THE STORY
1. Iceland 29
I. Before the Norsemen 29
II. The Norse Discovery and First Settlement 37
III. The Stripling Republic 43
IV. Life and Literature 57
V. The Republic Ends 66
2. Greenland 73
I. Discovery and Settlement 73
II. Decline and Fall 87
3. Vinland the Good 115
Venture and Withdrawal 115
Part Two THE SOURCES
4. The Book of the Icelanders 143
5. The Book of the Settlements 156
6. The Greenlanders\'Saga 186
7. Eirik the Red\'s Saga 207
8. Karlsefni\'s Voyage to Vinland (Part of the Hauksbók version) 233
9. The Story of Einar Sokkason 236
APPENDIXES
I. (a) Ohthere\'s Northern Voyage 251
   (b) Saxo Grammaticus\'s Description of Iceland and Norway 254
II. The Only King who Rests in Iceland 258
III. Ungortok the Chief of Kakortok 262
IV. A Winter Too Many: Nipaitsoq V54 (by Thomas H. McGovern and colleagues) 268
V. The Norse Greenlanders and Arctic Canada (with Remarks by Robert McGhee) 276
VI. Of Spies and Unipeds 283
VII. The L’Anse aux Meadows Site (by Birgitta Linderoth Wallace) 285
VIII. Texts and Editions 304
Index 321