The Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers

by Kirsten A. Seaver

Book Overview

Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards to North America, setting foot on its shores five hundred years before Columbus' first journeys of discovery. But by about AD 1500 their settlements were abandoned and the Norse Greenlanders and their explorations of the New World receded into the realms of myth. What happened between these momentous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350143367
• ISBN13: 9781350143364
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"