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Article: Viking Empires.(Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map)(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2006
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Viking Empires, by Angelo Forte, Richard Oram, and Frederik Pedersen. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 447 pp. $40.00 US (cloth).
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map, by Kirsten A. Seaver. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xxi, 480 pp. $25.95 US (paper).
The saga in Viking Empires begins with the Roman defeat at Teutoburg in 9 AD and ends in the thirteenth century, when the Scandinavian states became champions of Christianity in Northern Europe. Geographically, the focus of the book's fourteen chapters is the Viking impact on western mainland Europe, the British Isles, and the islands of the north ...