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

Kolodny, Annette 1941-2019 (Author).

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: 9780822352860
ISBN: 9780822352822
ISBN: 0822352869
ISBN: 0822352826
ISBN: 9786613582461
ISBN: 9781280487231
ISBN: 9780822395539
ISBN: 6613582468
ISBN: 1280487232
ISBN: 0822395533
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 426 pages : illustrations
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Computer data.
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.
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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.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.