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Navegación y embarcaciones en la época vikinga: diferentes fuentes para su estudio (Shipping and navigation in the Viking Age: different sources for study)

Medievalists.net — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:07:43 +0000

This article (in Spanish) is about Viking shipping and navigation.

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Arctic encounters between Norse and Natives

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:40:50 +0000

Contact between the Norse and Native peoples in Canada's Arctic was more extensive and earlier than first believed, according to recent archaeological evidence.

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Vínland and Wishful Thinking: Medieval and Modern Fantasies

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:07:36 +0000

Reevaluating the wishful reality of the Vinland islands requires that the stories of the Vinland journeys be squarely situated in the context of the world geographic system adopted by those who told those stories.

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The Protocol of Vengeance in Viking-age Scandinavia

Medievalists.net — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:57:09 +0000

Violence, even murder, perpetuated this cycle of revenge. This code of retribution can be broken down further into the following dimensions: the individuals involved, the appropriate actions as deemed by Viking society, and any extenuating circumstances, such as supernatural strength or the wronged party’s reluctance to seek revenge.

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The Vínland sagas as propaganda for the Christian Church

Medievalists.net — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:11:01 +0000

Over the last two centuries, the Vínland Sagas have become some of the most discussed of Medieval Nordic documents. There are arguments about every aspect of the sagas: What the name Vínland means, if Vínland existed, where it would have been geographically, and how much of their content is historically accurate.

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An island archaeological approach to the Viking colonization of the North Atlantic

Medievalists.net — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:38 +0000

The present paper is a brief exploration of the application of methods commonly used in the archaeological study of the Pacific and Mediterranean islands to the expansion of the Vikings across the North Atlantic during the ninth to eleventh centuries AD.

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Iron Smelting in Vinland

Medievalists.net — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:44:42 +0000

Any former iron smelting site presents a special problem for archaeologists. The process of converting iron rich ore into a working iron bar requires a complex series of steps. Each separate function is most likely to be undertaken by heavily modifying the previous equipment set up. Unfortunately for the archaeologist, the evidence of those important earlier stages is certain to be blurred, if not totally obliterated, by later steps. It will be the very last part of the whole process which alone remain as evidence.

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The Vinland Mystery

Medievalists.net — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:37:17 +0000

Made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1984, this short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good.

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