“Viking” North America: The North American Public’s Understanding of Its Norse Heritage

“Viking” North America: The North American Public’s Understanding of Its Norse Heritage

By Megan Arnott

Paper given at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (2011)

Arnott’s paper dealt with the public’s perceptions of the Vikings/Norse and their settlement in North America, using both her experience as a worker at the L’Anse aux Meadows site in Newfoundland, and research into the vast literature about this topic.

Click here to read this paper from The Modern Historian, the Canadian Medievalist, and other such Oxymorons

See also our page on L’Anse aux Meadows