1: Discovering America
2: Sagas and Chronicles
3: Maps
4: Iceland and the Discovery of Greenland
5: Norse Greenland
6: L'Anse aux Meadows
7: The Limits of the Norse Presence in North America
8: American Runestones
9: The Kensington Runestone
10: Understanding Norse America
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Further Reading
Gordon Campbell is Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the University
of Leicester, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In January
2012 he was presented with the Longman History Today Trustees Award
(for lifetime contribution to history). He has authored and edited
many books for OUP including The Oxford Dictionary of the
Renaissance (2003); Renaissance Art and Architecture (2004); John
Milton: Life, Work and Thought (2008; co-author);
Bible: the Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011 R(2010); and
IThe Hermit in the Garden: from Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome
(2013). He most recently edited The Oxford Illustrated History of
the Renaissance for OUP.
It has the potential to shift the debate on the Vinland journeys
and the Norse discovery of North America in new and welcome
directions.
*Sverrir Jakobsson, History: Reviews of New Books*
Gordon Campbell's fascinating book explains how this questionable
theory evolved into an argument for the cultural supremacy of
people of northern European Protestant descent over Americans of
different ancestry.
*Tony Barber, Financial Times, Best History Books of 2021*
Campbell excels in deconstructing the "fantasy archaeology" that
has been used to bolster claims to Norse heritage, from genuine
Viking-Age weapons deliberately buried and then "discovered", to
outright fakes. [...] Norse America is a welcome deconstruction of
a founding myth that remains dangerously politicized.
*Jane Kershaw, Times Literary Supplement*
Norse America is an important book that equips the reader to
interrogate the stories we think we know, and asks how - and why -
we arrived where we are today. This highly readable volume is
particularly suited to those who want to understand how the past is
shaped in the present - often for explicit political aims.
*Cat Jarman, BBC History Magazine*
[An] engaging and illuminating account ... this breadth, this
willingness to see the Norse voyages to Greenland and Canada as
part of a much bigger story, is the great strength of this
book.
*Judith Jesch, History Today*
This breezy, well-researched, and frequently hilarious book is one
of the best recent take-downs of ethnic chauvinism I've seen in
years... Campbell, a Scotsman with a sense of humor as dry as a
finely-aged single malt, is merciless in dissecting every single
alleged Norse artifact, archaeological site, and inscription, up to
and including the Norse sagas themselves... [R]ead this book
post-haste.You will not be disappointed.
*Daily Kos*
Norse America provides an impressively complex overview of the
pre-modern movements of northern Europeans and discusses a large
array of forged objects and theories, thereby successfully
addressing common misconceptions and conspiracy theories related to
the medieval Norse presence in America.
*Verena Höfig, Speculum 99/1*
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