{"product_id":"viking-america-the-first-millennium-9780859916080","title":"Viking America: The First Millennium","description":"\u003cb\u003eViking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, \u003ci\u003eGroenlendinga saga\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSaga of Greenlanders\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eEiriks saga rauda\u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eSaga of Eric the Red\u003c\/i\u003e), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns.\u003cbr\u003eGERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.","brand":"Geraldine Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280291934459,"sku":"9780859916080","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859916080.jpg?v=1772483210","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/viking-america-the-first-millennium-9780859916080","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}