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In search of first contact : the Vikings of Vinland, the peoples of the dawnland, and the Anglo-American anxiety of discovery  Cover Image E-book E-book

In search of first contact : the Vikings of Vinland, the peoples of the dawnland, and the Anglo-American anxiety of discovery / Annette Kolodny.

Summary:

A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first ""discoverer"" of America.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0822395533
  • ISBN: 1280487232
  • ISBN: 6613582468
  • ISBN: 9780822395539
  • ISBN: 9781280487231
  • ISBN: 9786613582461
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 426 pages : illustrations
  • Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:july.24
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The politics of American prehistory : isolation versus contact -- Contact and conflict : what the Vinland sagas tell us -- Anglo-America's Viking heritage : a nineteenth-century romance -- The New England poets of Viking America and the emergence of the plastic Viking -- The challenge to Columbus and the romance undone -- "We could not discerne any token or signe, that ever any Christian had been before" : the phantom of first contact -- Contact and conflict again : what native stories tell us.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Action Note:
digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Gemeinnützige Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Altona
Sagas > History and criticism.
Sagas > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Discoveries in geography > Norse
Entdeckung Motiv
Literature
Rezeption
Sagas
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
America > Discovery and exploration > Norse.
America > Literatures > History and criticism.
Amérique > Littératures > Histoire et critique.
America
Amerika
Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.


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