Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth

by Gordon Campbell

The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries.

Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198861559
• ISBN13: 9780198861553
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"