Anthropology 2100 Lecture Notes - Thorvald Eiriksson, Greenland Saga, Sagas Of Icelanders

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2100
• Professor: Peter Timmins

Document Summary

Concerns the period of european contact, exploration, and settlement and includes contact period (historic) first. Nations sites, military sites (ex: fort york), early european settlements, historic urban sites, pioneer farmsteads, and sites of important historical figures. There are branches such as plantation archaeology and norse contact and settlement. The norse reached north america between 900 and 1000 years ago and we get these dates from their documentary records called the icelandic sagas which were written two centuries after the events they describe. The document"s historical accuracy is questioned but it does show a cycle of accidental discovery, exploration and colonization into places like the faroe islands, iceland, and greenland. Bjarni herjolfson in ad 986 voyaged to newfoundland and the labrador coast but there were other voyages by ari. Marsson in ad 995, bjorn asbrandson in ad 998 and gudlief gudlaugsson in ad 1022 that are not authenticated. It is the greenlander"s saga and erik the red"s saga seem most accurate.