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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note to the Reader | |
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| An American Place Named Vinland | |
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| America and the Medieval Norse | |
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| The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation | |
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| The Vinland Map | |
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| Sources for the Vinland Map | |
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| Guaranteeing Authenticity | |
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| Showing the Map to a Wider World | |
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| Father Time and Daughter Truth | |
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| The Norse in and near North America | |
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| A Flawed Source of Information | |
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| Who Were the Norse? | |
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| Voyaging to New Lands | |
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| Far North Was Far Away | |
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| No Help from the Norse | |
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| Eirik the Red, Mariner and Merchant | |
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| Nordrseta: The Northern Hunting Grounds | |
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| Norse Relations with Arctic Natives | |
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| From Arctic Greenland to Arctic North America | |
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| The Vinland Voyages | |
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| L'Anse aux Meadows | |
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| Grapes and Grain | |
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| Abandoning Vinland | |
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| Continued American Connections | |
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| The Literary Aftermath | |
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| Disputed American Destinations | |
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| Sustaining Life in Norse Greenland | |
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| Everyday Life | |
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| How Cold Was It? | |
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| Did Hard Times Become Harder in Greenland? | |
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| Tusks, Tithes, and Other Troubles | |
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| The Many Names of a Much Loved Child | |
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| The Cod Wars Begin | |
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| Did a New Beginning Become an End? | |
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| The Black Hole of Provenance | |
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| A Child of Unknown Parentage | |
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| Early Misgivings About the "Private Collection" | |
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| The Spanish Connection | |
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| An English Sojourn | |
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| The Map's Provenance No Clearer by 1974 | |
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| A Muddied Pond | |
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| A Companion to the Vinland Map Volume | |
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| Where Did the Profits Go? | |
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| Creating Matter from Wormholes | |
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| The Joy of Discovery | |
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| General Description of the Two Volumes | |
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| Scrutiny by Experts | |
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| Who Ordered the "Improvements"? | |
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| The Bindings | |
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| The Handwriting | |
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| A Widening Inquiry | |
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| Watermarks | |
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| The Speculum Pastedowns and the Council of Basel | |
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| Why the Council of Basel? | |
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| Wormholes | |
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| A Star Is Born | |
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| The Vinland Map Reaches Yale | |
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| The Big Secret | |
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| The Big Names | |
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| The Big Launch | |
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| The Big Discussion | |
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| Dissidents Need Not Apply | |
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| The Cost of Public Stargazing | |
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| Portrait of the Vinland Map | |
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| A Map with No Equal | |
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| Immediate Visual Appearance | |
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| The Map Parchment and Its Flaws | |
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| The Handwriting | |
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| Delineacio prima pars ... | |
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| The Wormholes on the Map | |
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| European Medieval Ink | |
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| The Vinland Map Ink Debate | |
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| Modern Anatase | |
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| The Vinland Map as a Cartographic Image | |
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| A Flat Earth--or a Globe? | |
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| Was Skelton a Reluctant Commentator? | |
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| Many Cartographical Traditions--and None | |
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| Adam of Bremen | |
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| Inventio Fortunata | |
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| The Influence of Claudius Ptolemaeus | |
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| Claudius Clavus Niger | |
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| Leading up to Circa 1440: The European View | |
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| A Subtle Composite | |
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| Northern Geographical Conventions | |
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| Snorri Sturluson's Universe | |
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| Ginnungagap and the Birth of a Cartographic Myth | |
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| Navigating by the Vinland Map | |
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| The Vinland Map as a Narrative | |
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| The Roman Church at the "End of the World" | |
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| A Haphazard Quest | |
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| Luka Jelic | |
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| The Land "Our Brothers" Saw | |
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| The 1245-47 Carpini Visit to the Mongols | |
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| Mounting Troubles | |
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| Which Way to the Caspian Sea? | |
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| Room for Prester John | |
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| "A New Land" | |
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| "Tartars, Mongols, Samoyeds, and Indians ..." | |
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| Adding to the Vinland Myth | |
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| Who "Discovered" Vinland? | |
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| Missionary to the Samoyeds | |
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| Further Ambiguities | |
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| Searching for the Author | |
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| The Vinland Map as a Human Creation | |
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| Father Josef (Joseph) Fischer, S.J. (1858-1944) | |
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| Scholarly Connections | |
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| America's "Baptismal Certificate" and Its 1516 Sibling | |
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| The Norse Discovery of America | |
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| An Active Life | |
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| Public Recognition | |
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| Returning to the Norse | |
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| A Moravian Castle Library | |
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| Father Fischer's Choice | |
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| Annus horribilis--1933 | |
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| Retirement | |
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| Last Return to Wolfegg | |
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| A Map Without a Home | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |