The Vanished Settlers of Greenland
In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy
(Sprache: Englisch)
A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?
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A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?
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For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Vanished Settlers of Greenland “
Introduction; Prologue: The Medieval Settlements in Greenland; 1. Land of Wealth and Violence: Early Representations of Greenland; 2. Greenland and Discourses of Possession; 3. Beyond the Horizon: Greenland in Eighteenth-Century Perspectives; 4. 1818: British Greenland; 5. Greenland's Fall and Restoration; 6. The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon; 7. Arctic Adventure Tales: Science and Imperialism; 8. Vanished Settlers: A Return to New Beginnings; Conclusion.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Rix
Robert W. Rix is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is widely known for his prolific publication profile in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies. This includes areas such as politics, religion, language, nationalism, and print culture. Rix has also published on earlier periods, for example The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature (2014).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Rix
- 2023, 217 Seiten, Maße: 14,7 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 1009359479
- ISBN-13: 9781009359474
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.07.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'The Vanished Settlers of Greenland embeds speculation about the fate - or survival - of the Norse medieval Greenlandic colony in a series of historical contexts, demonstrating the long and deep roots of the European imaginative fascination with the Arctic and its peoples. Moving adeptly between political and cultural history, ethnography, literary criticism and post-colonial critique, Rix's study is indispensable to understanding Greenland's colonial past - and its changing present.' Carolyne Larrington, University of Oxford
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