41. Location Of Scandinavian Materials In Wilson Library History, archaeology, general bibliographies and reference works, DL1DL43 scandinavia; DL101-250 Denmark 948-949.104, scandinavia, Norway, etc. 998, greenland. http://area.lib.umn.edu/scancol.html

42. Powell's Books - Used, New, And Out Of Print did inthe Viking age, both at home in scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from greenland to Russia a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history http://www.powells.com/subsection/ArchaeologyVikings.html

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44. List_of_authors and markets in Northern Fennoscandinavia AD 1550 Schools in small settlements in greenland The impact on Towards a self-reflecting archaeology Vágar, Vågan http://www.imv.uit.no/english/science/publicat/actaborealia/list_of_authors.html

ACTA BOREALIA A NORDIC JOURNAL OF CIRCUMPOLAR SOCIETIES List of contents ACTA BOREALIA, 1984-1996 Volume 1(1), 1984 Bertelsen, R.: Farm mounds of the Harstad area. Quantitative investigations of accumulation characteristics. 7-25. Helskog, K.: The Younger Stone Age settlements in Varanger, North Norway. 39-70. Jahr, E.H.: Language Contact in Northern Norway. Adstratum and substratum in the Norwegian, Sami and Finnish for Northern Norway. 103-112. Volume 1(2), 1984 Engelstad, E.: Diversity in Arctic maritime adaptions. An example from the Late Stone Age of Arctic Norway. 3-24. Hansen, L.I.: Trade and markets in Northern Fenno-Scandinavia A.D. 1550-1750. 47-79. Nielssen, A.R.: Animal husbandry among the Norwegian population in Finnmark c. 1685-1705. 81-112. Volume 2(1-2), 1985 Proceedings of the Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino) seminar on "minority research from the point of view of the humanities and social sciences" Mathiesen, P.: Comments on the Guovdageaidnu seminar. 3-8. Hansen, L.I.: Sami title to land in Southern Troms, Norway - Approach, method and data in reconstructing Sami rights of the past. 9-28. Thuen, T.: Acculturation and ethnic survival? 29-45.

45. Subjects_of_articles Odner, K. (1992) Ethnicity and traditions in Northern Fennoscandinavia. HE (1987) On socio-genealogies in South West greenland, 1750-1950. archaeology. http://www.imv.uit.no/english/science/publicat/actaborealia/subjects_of_articles

ACTA BOREALIA A NORDIC JOURNAL OF CIRCUMPOLAR SOCIETIES Subjects of articles Introduction / Foreword / From the Editors Editors, The. (1996) Introduction. Acta Borealia 13(2):2. Fagertun, F. (1994-1995) Introduction. Acta Borealia 11-12:3-4. Mathiesen, P. (1990) Introduction. Acta Borealia 7(1):3-4. Anthropology / Social-anthropology Antilla, S. and E. Torp. (1996) Environment, Adjustment and Private Economic Strategies in Reindeer Pastoralism: Combining Game Theory with Participatory Action Theory. Acta Borealia 13(2):91-108. Barre, K. de la (1987) Strategies in northern development in Canada since the late 1960's. Acta Borealia 4(1-2):91-118. Berliner, P. (1987) Small-scale schooling and national development. Schools in small settlements in Greenland: The impact on the opportunities of adolescents concerning work and/or education. Acta Borealia 4(1-2):137-146. Birketvedt, B.F. (1990) "There are only realities built in the mind." The anthropological challenge of translating visual experience in the arts. Acta Borealia 7(1):59-67. Bjerkli, B. (1996) Land Use, Traditionalism and Rights. Acta Borealia 13(1):3-21.

46. History Of Discoveries - Society Interested In Geographical Discovery, Voyages O to the inductive methods of archaeology.” (p. xix of lands between Alaska and greenland Baffin, Southampton as parts of Asia or of scandinavia because Europe http://www.sochistdisc.org/2003_book_reviews/enterline.htm

Enterline, James Robert As for limitations, Mr. Enterline offers this: “The story so construed is not held out as proven truth. Instead it is a plausible theory to be tested against independent evidence” (p. xix), holding that “the day to day purpose of science is not the establishment of universal final explanations” (p. xix) but the articulation of theories that lead to further research and better theories. His methodology takes the book out of the realm of history: “This is not a history book . It is a pre-history book that subjects maps and documents, as artifacts, to the inductive methods of archaeology.” (p. xix). Confronted by the inevitable question, did Columbus see these documents, Enterline concludes that whether he did or not, the generation preceding him certainly did and as a “rationally motivated proto-scientist” (p. xix), his views of land to the west were thereby influenced by them. Creating that chronology is what much of the remainder of the book is about. In it Enterline states that the “divulgence-hiding paradigms” alluded to above can clarify the heretofore-unexplained features of Arctic and Far Eastern coastal features that appeared on maps after the Norse encountered the Thule Eskimos in western Greenland. There are eighty-six items in this chronological survey, dating from Ptolemy’s “Geographia” in the second century to Hans Poulson Resen’s map of Vinland, 1605. These include maps, manuscripts, books, voyages and other events, all testifying to the breadth and inclusiveness of Enterline’s research. Some will appear more convincing and pertinent than others but together they are marshaled to account for the eventual appearance of North America as a geographical entity separate from Asia.

47. FutureTalk.org Ingmar Jansson, a professor of archaeology at Stockholm people who lived in scandinavia—Sweden, Norway Atlantic Ocean to Iceland, greenland, and eventually http://www.futuretalk.org/04/q1/02232835.html

Vikings' barbaric bad rap beginning to fade nationalgeographic.com Stefan Lovgren in Stockholm, Sweden for National Geographic News "Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race. … Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert, spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples." So wrote religious scholar Alcuin of York in the late eighth century in a letter to Ethelred, king of Northumbria in England. He was describing a violent raid by Vikings on a monastery in present-day Scotland. But were the Vikings merely primitive plunderers? Far from it, say scholars. Using archaeological and other evidence, researchers have in recent years been piecing together a more complex picture of the Vikings that sharply contradicts the stereotype of the Vikings as mere barbarians. "The Norsemen were not just warriors, they were farmers, artists, shipbuilders, and innovators," said Ingmar Jansson, a professor of archaeology at Stockholm University in Sweden. "More than anything, they were excellent traders who connected peoples from Baghdad to Scandinavia to the mainland of North America." Exaggerating Atrocities The origin of the word "Viking" is highly disputed. Some experts say it means "pirate." Others believe it refers to people coming from the region of the Viken (the old name for Norway's Oslo Fjord).

48. Vikings Homosexuality in Viking scandinavia; Norman Conquest@; Ravensgard in Southwest Sweden, The archaeology dealing with into Norse religion in greenland, by Chris http://www.xs4all.nl/~xenophon/history/vikings.html

Vikings Updated 26 June 1998 General "Viking" Pilgrimage to the Holy Land - From Essays in History. Basic Guide to Footwear in the Viking Age Glima - wrestling of the vikings Heavener Runestone, The Homosexuality in Viking Scandinavia ... Runes - The Viking Oracle - a survey of the 25 most known runes with explanations. Runic Journey - online exploration of the ancient Norse runes, within an historical and spiritual context. Written and presented by Jennifer Smith. The Vikings: They Got Here First, But Why Didn't They Stay? - discussing the Viking forays into North America. Viking Home Page Viking Longships - feature article from Scientific American regarding the recent find of a Viking longship in Roskilde harbor. Also including general background on the development shipbuilding. Viking Navy Viking Network Web - information about the vikings and how we can find the inheritance of the vikings in modern society. Viking Times International Viking Voyage 1000 - story of a 1997 attempt to trace the Vikings original journey from Western Greenland to Newfoundland.

49. Road To Hel - FUNERAL CUSTOMS: THE EVIDENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY it was closed at the funeral, and the archaeologists who examined other examples of howes in scandinavia in which in the Viking settlement in greenland one was http://normannii.org/guilds_lore/lore/roadtohel/chapter_01.htm

Normannii Thiud Reik Time which antiquates antiquity and bath an art to make dust of all things hath yet spared these minor monuments. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urn Burial. THE DISPOSAL OP THE DEAD IN HEATHEN TIMES If we desire to know what ideas men held in heathen times about the life beyond the grave, it is natural to turn first to the evidence of archaeology. The grave is an uncontrovertible witness; changes of custom, trivial or sweeping, the importance of funeral ritual in the disposal of the dead, the choice of goods to lay beside or destroy with the body—all these it preserves for us, as definite facts that cannot be questioned. Any collection of literary evidence about the future life must benefit by a preliminary survey of these facts, to act as a touchstone by which the vague or contradictory statements of literary records may be tested. When cremation first appeared (Period III a) the burnt remains were still placed in a man-length stone cist; but during the next period (III b), as cremation became the universal rite, the grave altered accordingly, and the stone chamber which had held the body now shrank to a smaller, box-like stone cist to contain the urn. Mounds, when erected, were smaller; sometimes the urns were placed in barrows of an earlier period, and sometimes in the late Bronze Age (Montelius IV onwards) buried in flat graves. But although at the end of the Bronze Age the change from burial to burning seemed to be complete, certain graves which date from the transition period between the Bronze and Iron Ages prove a puzzling exception to the general rule, and show that in certain parts burial of the dead had either never been entirely abandoned or that it was now introduced again. In Gotland certain graves of early Iron Age date have been found to hold unburned bodies;

50. Mohawk College -> The BRAIN U. of Pennsylvania on various anthropology and archaeology topics such Subarctic regions of Alaska, Canada, greenland, Iceland, scandinavia, Siberia and http://www.mohawkc.on.ca/dept/library/brain/anthropology.htm

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51. At The Museums: Three Cheers For The Vikings Drawing on archaeological and environmental evidence uncovered in from a homeland in modern scandinavia, to the the Faeroes and Iceland, greenland, and finally http://www.archaeology.org/0007/abstracts/museum.html

Your browser does not support javascript At the Museums: Three Cheers for the Vikings Volume 53 Number 4, July/August 2000 by Judith Lindbergh When most people think of the Vikings, savage, horned-helmeted warriors and blond-braided maidens generally come to mind. Seemingly invincible in the annals of their Christianized victims, the Vikings explored, conquered, and exploited lands as far as their ships could carry them. They penetrated Russia, following waterways to the Black, Caspian, and eastern Mediterranean seas. They tormented the British Isles, terrorized Paris, and defaced a marble lion at the Greek port of Piraeus. But it was in the west, at the hands of Native North Americans and finally, more subtly, at the mercy of unpredictable changes in a fragile Arctic environment, that the Norse met a most poignant and unexpected fate. Drawing on archaeological and environmental evidence uncovered in the last 30 years, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's groundbreaking exhibit, Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga

52. General Norse Bibliography Ireland and scandinavia in the Early Viking Age. Land of the Tollund Man the prehistory and archaeology of Denmark. The History of greenland, Vol. http://www.ravensgard.org/gerekr/norsebib.html

General Norse Bibliography See also the Norse Overview Bibliography Norse Costume Bibliography Norse Religion Bibliography and the Runic Bibliography . Go to Architecture Art Coins Culture ... Regional Studies and its subdivisions: British Isles Denmark Finland France ... Technology , and Transport and its subdivisions: Land , and Ships Architecture Bugge, A. Norwegian Stave Churches. Oslo: n.p., 1955. Dyggve, Ejnar. "Gorm's Temple & Harald's Stave Church at Jelling", in Acta Archaeologica, XXV. Early Wooden Architecture in Norway (Stav og Laft i Norge). Faber, T. History of Danish Architecture. Copenhagen: n.p., 1967. Kavli, G. Norwegian Architecture. London: n.p., 1958. Linholm, Dan. Stave Churches in Norway. Paulsson, T. Scandinavian Architecture. London: n.p., 1958. Richards, J. A Guide to Finnish Architecture. New York: n.p., 1967. Art Anker, P. L'Art scandinave. Paris: n.p. 1968-69. Anker, P. The Art of Scandinavia. London: n.p., 1970. Berg, K. Fra Oseberg til Borgund. Oslo: n.p., 1981. Blindheim, M. Norwegian Romanesque Decorative Sculpture.

53. VIKING of the recent literature on medieval scandinavia; Wednesday Iceland, greenland, America Oxford 120128; Page Monday Written sources and archaeology Page 150 http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/fcurta/VIKING.html

Department of History EUH-3121 THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: THE VIKING EXPERIENCE Professor: Dr. Florin Curta Office: 202 Keene-Flint Hall Office hours: WF 2:00-4:00 or by appointment Phone: 392-0271, ext. 240 E-mail: fcurta@history.ufl.edu Class will meet MWF: 12:50-1:40 in LIT 121 THE COURSE SYLLABUS Fall 2002 Course description TEXTBOOKS Birgit and Peter Sawyer, Medieval Scandinavia. From Conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500 . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993 [hereafter Sawyer ]; on two-hour reserve in Library West Chronicles of the Vikings. Records, Memorials and Myths . Ed. by R. I. Page. Toronto/Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1995 [hereafter Page ]; on two-hour reserve in Library West The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings . Ed. by Peter Sawyer. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1997[hereafter Oxford ]; on two-hour reserve in Library West (optional) Medieval Scandinavia. An Encyclopedia . Ed. by Phillip Pulsiano. New York: Garland, 1993 [hereafter Pulsiano ]; in the non-circulating Reference section in

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55. Vikings Lectures 1999 They colonized England, greenland, Russia, and Iceland Medieval scandinavia The Vikings Wednesday, March 24, 1999 700 pm Viking Age archaeology in scandinavia http://www.unm.edu/~medinst/programs/spring lectures/vikings99.html

UNM Homepage Medieval Scandinavia: The Vikings and Their Culture March 22nd - 25th, 1999 Dane Smith Hall, Room 125 Wave over wave of Vikings cut through the North Sea and the Atlantic. In the east they portaged across Poland, penetrating Russia as far as the Caspian and Black Seas to the Mediterranean. Greed for glory and plunder, lust for freedom and land lured them to England, Sicily, Greenland, Ireland, and as far as Newfoundland in the New World. They colonized England, Greenland, Russia, and Iceland. Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, bands of scandinavians whom we have come to call Vikings played a significant part in reshaping the medieval world from Russia and Byzantium in the east to the Atlantic Islands and Newfoundland in the west as well as on the European continent. "Medieval Scandinavia: The Vikings and Their Culture," is the theme of this year's series. The lectures will examine the Viking Age as a vehicle for the transmission of political, social, and mythological structures and will correct some misperceptions of the Viking world. All of the lectures are free to the public. Lecture Schedule Monday, March 22, 1999 7:00 p.m.

56. Bibliography Norlund, Poul, Viking Settlers in greenland; Page, RI Michael ed., 1991 The Illustrated archaeology of Ireland rare for the Viking Period in scandinavia, such as http://www.wam.umd.edu/~eowyn/Longship/references.html

Bibliography for Longships, Vikings and Related Subjects This is a collection of references to books, articles, etc. that have been recommended to us as sources for material on the Viking era and/or on Longships. The Longship Company, Ltd. makes no claim as to the validity or availability of any of these resources and presents them only as an example of what is out there. Comments by the source of the information are included. They are alphabetized within the following categories. Technical, Ships Seamanship Cultural Technical, Cultural ... For the Kids Technical, Ships Atkinson, Ian, 1979, The Viking Ships , Cambridge Topic Book. Cambridge University Press. Excellent overview of the evolution of Viking ships, their construction, handling, history, sea battles. Description of the voyage of the Viking. Brogger, Anton Wilhelm and Haakon Shetelig, 1951, The Viking Ships, Their Ancestry and Evolution , Dreyers Forlag, Oslo, Norway. Good descriptions of how the Oseburg, Tune and Gokstad ships were constructed and furnished. Photographs of the ships in situ and reconstructed. Photographs of artifacts found on the ships. Drawings of motifs carved into the ships or their furnishings. Neers, Niels; Breakwater Books Ltd.

57. DIRECTORY OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS interdisciplinary program, including the areas of archaeology, botany, paleoecology Canada, western United States, Antarctica, greenland, scandinavia, the North http://www.geog.ukans.edu/gsa/GSA_GRAD.htm

ARCHAEOLOGICAL GEOLOGY DIVISION GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Directory of Graduate Programs in Archaeological Geology and Geoarchaeology Departments A - D Departments G - I Departments K - M Departments N - S ... Departments T - W The Directory of Graduate Programs in Archaeological Geology and Geoarchaeology Faculty in programs not listed should send the relevant data about their graduate programs to Rolfe Mandel. Faculty in listed programs should send current data each September to update the program information. If possible, send information via the internet. Dr. Rolfe Mandel Chair, Education Committee Archaeological Geology Division of GSA Department of Geography University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-2121 Internet: mandel@falcon.cc.ukans.edu February, 1998 ARIZONA, University of Tucson, Arizona Departments of Anthropology, Geosciences, and Materials Science: The University of Arizona has nationally recognized faculty and programs, well-equipped laboratories, and excellent computer facilities. Interdepartmental cooperation between the Anthropology, Geosciences, and Materials Science and Engineering departments is strong, so that students wishing to combine these disciplines may do so by tailoring Ph.D. and Masters programs via their graduate committees. Additional programs and facilities are available through the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research (www.ltrr.arizona.edu), the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, the Office of Arid Lands Studies (ag.arizona.edu/OALS/oals/oals.html), the Arizona State Museum (w3.arizona.edu:180/asm), and the Program on Culture, Science, Technology, and Society (offered through the Materials Science and Engineering Department).

58. European History Bosnian Music; Early Slavic History; archaeology in Northern World; Homosexuality in Viking scandinavia; Vikings; Ruins of Gardar Norse Religion in greenland; http://pw1.netcom.com/~wandaron/eur2.html

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59. Boydell & Brewer Ltd Viking age, both at home in scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from greenland to Russia. assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions http://www.boydell.co.uk/vik2.htm

Search You do not have a java enabled browser - click here for alternative menus 52 b/w illustrations 344 pages Size: 23 x 15 cm ISBN: 85115 826 9 Binding: Hardback First published: 2001 Price: £50.00 / $85.00 The Vikings were the master mariners and ship-builders of the middle ages: their success depended on these skills. Spectacular archaeological finds of whole or partial ships, from burial mounds or dredged from harbours, continue to give new and exciting evidence of their practical craftsmanship and urge to seek new shores. The nautical vocabulary of the Viking Age, however, has been surprisingly neglected - the last comprehensive study was published in 1912 and was heavily dependent on post-Viking Age sources. Far better contemporary sources from the later Viking Age are available to document the activities of men and their uses of ships from c.950-1100, and Judith Jesch undertakes in this book the first systematic and comparative study of such evidence. The core is a critical survey of the vocabulary of ships and their crews, of fleets and sailing and battles at sea, based on runic inscriptions and skaldic evidence from c.950-1100. This nautical vocabulary is studied within the larger context of 'viking' activity in this period: what that activity was and where it took place, its social and military aspects, and its impact on developments in the nature of kingship in Scandinavia.

60. Viewing NetStep @2Learn.ca Music, and Literature, History and archaeology, Society and Scientific American, Nordic SagasSpecial From scandinavia. of the Dead, Lost Vikings of greenland. http://www.2learn.ca/search/NetStepView.asp?PID=1322

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