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| Preface | |
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| Puffins, Ringed Pins, and Runestones: The Viking Passage to America | |
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| Viking Homelands | |
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| Scandinavia in the Viking Age | |
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| The Scandinavian Landscape: People and Environment | |
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| Farming and Daily Life | |
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| Religion, Art, and Runes | |
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| Shamanism and the Vikings? | |
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| Political Organization and Social Life | |
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| From Warrior to Trade Economy | |
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| Ships and Navigation | |
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| Viking Raiders | |
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| The Viking Age in Europe | |
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| The Eastern Route: Finland in the Viking Age | |
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| "Laid Waste, Plundered, and Burned": Vikings in Frankia | |
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| Viking Expansion and Cultural Blending in Britain and Ireland | |
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| Vikings in the North Atlantic | |
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| Sagas of Western Expansion | |
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| The North Atlantic Environment | |
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| Vikings in the Faeroe Islands | |
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| The Archaeology of Landnam: Early Settlement in Iceland | |
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| The Icelandic Commonwealth Period: Building a New Society | |
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| Eddas and Sagas in Medieval Iceland | |
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| Viking America | |
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| 1000 A.D.: East Meets West | |
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| Skraeling: First Peoples of Helluland, Markland, and Vinland | |
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| A Norse Penny from Maine | |
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| The Viking Settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows | |
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| Jasper Cores from L'Anse aux Meadows | |
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| An Introduction to the Vinland Sagas | |
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| Greenlanders' Saga | |
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| Erik the Red's Saga | |
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| An Archaeologist's Interpretation of the Vinland Sagas | |
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| The Quest for Vinland in Saga Scholarship | |
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| The Norse and Native North Americans | |
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| Ellesmere: Vikings in the Far North | |
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| A World in Transition: Early Cartography of the North Atlantic | |
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| Unanswered Questions | |
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| Norse Greenland | |
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| From Vikings to Norseman | |
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| Life and Death in Norse Greenland | |
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| The Farm Beneath the Sand | |
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| Greenland and Europe | |
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| Natives and Norse in Greenland | |
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| The Demise of Norse Greenland | |
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| The Norse Legacy in Greenland | |
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| Viring Legacy | |
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| Celebrating the Viking Millennium in America | |
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| The Old Norse Dream | |
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| Reflections on an Icon: Vikings in American Culture | |
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| Stumbles and Pitfalls in the Search for Viking America | |
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| The Newport Tower | |
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| Sagas and Science: Climate and Human Impacts in the North Atlantic | |
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| Travel the Viking Trail: Eco-Tourism and Viking Heritage | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Institutions Lending to the Exhibition | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Index | |