HISB40H3 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 (fall 2010)
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Try to answer the essay question as specifically as you can, and try to pay attention to the wording of the question. Passed around stories in sagas (long poem: entertain and glorify norse tradition. Earliest known contact between the norse and na took place in 1000 ad. Eric the red banished for murder: founded greenland tales of exploration in 985 ad. 986 ad, bjarni herjolfsson, blown off course in greenland, sighting of north. America by accident, newfoundland or labrador, first sight of na by europe. Thorvaldr erikson, brother of leif, settled in vinland following year, sod dwellings, less than 100 people: hostile encounters with the natives, two leg, forerunners of the inuits, refered to as the skraelings, 1002-3. norse tried to kill all of them, killed 8. skraelings killed the norse, including thorvaldr ended the norse sagas. Early 1960s, helga ingstad, used the sagas as a reference point, actually turned out to be a viking settlement in newfoundland.
