HIS 826 Lecture 6: Viking Exploration: European Pre-Scientific Exploration and the Medieval Warm Period
23 Jan 2021
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Viking exploration: european pre-scientific exploration and the medieval warm period. Normandy: viking ships: no harbours in the dark-ages to they had to be able to pull up to the shore, no shipping infrastructure. 60 years: this would make up for deaths in colony, lost and sunk ships, outmigration, at least 20 ships were sent per year, the atlthing common assembly government was in charge. Iceland was a republic for 400 years: basis on the north atlantic trade: cod (which was abundant in. Iceland), flour, beer, wine, cloth, salt, swords/weapons, nails, horseshoes, and glass. Gokstad ship: commissioned during the reign of harald fairhair in the late 800s ad. Discovery of greenland: eric the red went to the closest point which was 190 miles from. Iceland during his exile: greenland remained a norse colony from 986-1430s, peak population of 3000 (only two settlements, abandoned greenland 60 years before columbus discovered north.
