Norse America : the story of a founding myth
Gordon Campbell.
- Na.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2021
- pages cm
"Norse America The Story of a Founding Myth 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 - and what these myths tell us about those who spread them and the society that nurtured them. This is a book that definitively sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America"--