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  Adam of Bremen, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Almquist, Bo, [>]

  alphabets, [>], [>]–[>]

  Althing (meeting of Icelandic chieftains), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  amber, [>], [>], [>]

  Anderson, J. R. L., [>]–[>]

  Anderson, Rasmus B., [>]

  Andersson, Eva, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, [>], [>]–[>]

  anthropology, [>], [>], [>]

  forensic, [>]

  archaeology

  absorption spectrophotometry in, [>]

  backhoes and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  carbon-14 dating methods in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  diet analysis in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  DNA analysis in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  experimental, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  GPS grids in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  graves in. See graves

  Greenland ice cap and, [>], [>]

  ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Icelandic attitudes toward, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  midden (garbage pit) studies in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  nature of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  permits and, [>]

  photography in, [>], [>]–[>]

  pollen analysis in, [>], [>], [>]

  ransacking in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  remote-sensing devices in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  sagas versus, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  soil dating in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  tephra and tephrochronology in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  thin-layer chromatography in, [>]

  tree-ring studies in, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  trowels in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  underwater, [>]–[>]

  volcanic ash studies in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Ari the Learned, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Arnarstapi, Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Arneborg, Jette, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Arni Magnusson, [>], [>]–[>]

  Arnor Old-Woman’s Nose, [>], [>]

  Arthurian literature, [>]–[>], [>]

  Asa, Queen, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also Oseberg ship burial astrolabe, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  backhoes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Baffin Island, Canada, [>]–[>], [>]

  baleen, [>], [>], [>]

  barley, [>], [>], [>]

  Bayeux Tapestry, [>]–[>]

  beads

  amber, [>], [>]

  glass, [>], [>]

  in graves, [>], [>]

  bearing-dials, [>]

  beds, [>], [>], [>]

  beeswax, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Beothuck Indians, [>]–[>]

  Bergthora, [>]–[>], [>]

  birch, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Bird Cove, Newfoundland, [>]

  Birka, Sweden, [>], [>]–[>]

  bishops

  descendants of Gudrid, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  of Greenland, [>]

  of Iceland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Bjarni Herjolfsson, [>], [>]

  Bjorkedal, Ottar, [>]

  Bjorkedal, Sigurd, [>], [>]

  Bjorn Gilsson, Bishop, [>]

  Black Death, [>]–[>]

  Blondal, Sigurdur, [>]–[>]

  bogbean plant, [>]

  bog iron, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Bolender, Douglas, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Bolli, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  bone-jelly porridge, [>]

  bones. See also fish bones; graves

  of cats, [>]

  of dogs, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  excavation of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  food sources based on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  human, analysis of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  uses of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Book of Flatey, [>]–[>]

  Book of Settlements, The, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Book of the Icelanders, The (Ari the Learned), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Borges, Jorge Luis, [>]

  Boron, Robert de, [>]

  Brand Saemundarson, Bishop, [>]–[>], [>]

  Brattahlid, Greenland

  farm of Eirik the Red at, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  modern settlement at, [>]–[>]

  Thjodhild’s Church at, [>]–[>], [>]

  Breidfjord, Sigurdur, [>]

  British Isles. See also Hebrides; Scotland Icelandic settlers from, [>]–[>]

  Norse legacy in, [>]–[>], [>]

  St. Brice’s Day massacre in, [>]–[>]

  brooches, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  buckets, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  bulls, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  burls, [>], [>]–[>]

  butter, [>]–[>]

  butternuts (white walnuts), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Byzantium. See Constantinople

  Canada

  Baffin Island, [>]–[>], [>]

  Bird Cove, [>]

  L’Anse aux Meadows, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Miramichi River, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  New Brunswick, [>], [>], [>]

  Newfoundland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Quebec, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Straits of Belle Isle, [>], [>]

  canoes, [>]–[>]

  carbon-14 dating methods, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  carbon isotopes, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  cargo ships, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Carlson, Catherine, [>]

  Carter, Hodding, [>]

  Carter, Tara, [>], [>], [>]

  Cartier, Jacques, [>]–[>]

  cats, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Celtic Christianity, [>]–[>]

  Center for Textile Research, Copenhagen, [>]–[>]

  Change of Ways, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Charlemagne, [>], [>]

  cheese, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  chieftains, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Chretien de Troyes, [>]

  Christensen, Arne Emil, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Christianity, [>]–[>]. See also bishops; popes

  attitudes toward death and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  burial customs, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Celtic, [>]–[>]

  churches, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  conversion to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  equality and, [>], [>]

  in Greenland, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Gudrid’s pilgrimage to Rome, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Gudrid as a nun, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  in Iceland, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  ivory and, [>]–[>], [>]

  Norway and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  in poetry, [>]

  Vikings and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  women and, [>]–[>]

  climate change, [>], [>]

  cloth. See also weaving; wool

  dyes of, [>], [>], [>]

  economics of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  in graves, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  l
inen, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  red, [>], [>]

  shaggy weave (fake fur), [>], [>]–[>]

  silk, [>], [>]–[>]

  twill, [>]–[>], [>]

  clothing, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Clover, Carol, [>], [>]

  cod, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  collapse of Greenland Norse society, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Columbus, Christopher, [>], [>], [>]

  Constantinople, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Cortereal, Gaspar de, [>]–[>]

  cows, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  cross and crucifix, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Crumlin-Pedersen, Ole, [>]–[>], [>]

  Cuchulainn, [>]

  Damiata, Brian, [>], [>]–[>]

  days of the week, [>]

  death. See also graves

  attitudes toward, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Christian burial customs, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Otherworld, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  pagan burial customs, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Decker, George, [>], [>], [>]

  DeLaguna, Frederica, [>]

  democracy, in Iceland, [>]–[>]

  dendrochronology, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Denmark

  Center for Textile Research, Copenhagen, [>]–[>]

  National Museum of, Copenhagen, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Iceland independence movement and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Skuldelev ships, [>]–[>]

  Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, [>]–[>]

  Diamond, Jared, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  diet. See also archaeology; bones

  in Greenland, [>]–[>]

  in Iceland, [>]–[>], [>]

  Disko Island, Greenland, [>]–[>]

  Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (Hakluyt), [>]

  divorce, [>]

  DNA analysis, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  dogs, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  bones of, [>], [>]

  in graves, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  lapdogs, [>]

  Dorset Eskimos, [>]

  Drangey, Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  dried fish, [>]

  drift ice. See ice

  driftwood, [>]

  Dublin, Ireland, [>], [>], [>]

  DuBois, Thomas, [>]–[>], [>]

  Dudo of Normandy, [>]

  Durrenberger, Paul, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  dyes, [>], [>], [>]

  Earle, Tim, [>]

  Eggertsson, Gunnar Marel, [>]–[>], [>]

  Egil's Saga, [>]–[>], [>]

  eider ducks and eider down, [>], [>], [>]

  Einar (Gudrid’s suitor), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Einar of Laugarbrekka (Gudrid’s grandfather), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Eiriksijord (“Eirik’s Fjord”), Greenland [>], [>]. See also Brattahlid, Greenland

  Eiriksson, Leif. See Leif Eiriksson

  Eiriksson, Thorstein. See Thorstein Eiriksson (Gudrid’s husband)

  Eirik the Red, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also Saga of Eirik the Red, The

  banishment from Iceland, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Brattahlid, Greenland, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  discovery of Greenland, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Eiriksstadir (“Eirik’s Homestead”), Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Freydis (bastard daughter of), [>]–[>]

  house building and, [>]–[>]

  Land-Taking (985), [>]

  Thorbjorn Vifilsson (Gudrid’s father) and, [>]–[>]

  elephant ivory, [>], [>]

  elves (Hidden Folk), [>], [>]

  EM-31, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Enghoff, Inge Bodker, [>]

  Erlendsson, Hauk, [>]–[>]

  Erlingsson, Thorsteinn, [>]–[>]

  Eskimos, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  experimental archaeology, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Eyrbyggja Saga, [>]–[>], [>]

  Eysteinsson, Throstur, [>]–[>]

  Fabricius, Otho, [>]

  Farm Beneath the Sand, Greenland, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  “Farm of Merry Noise.” See Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland

  farming, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  fish bones, [>]–[>]

  fishing, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Flateyjarbók (“Book of Flatey”), [>]–[>]

  flax, [>], [>]

  flies, [>]

  forensic anthropology, [>]

  fortune-telling, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Freydis, [>]–[>], [>]

  Fridrek, Bishop, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Frobisher, Martin, [>]

  furs, [>], [>], [>]

  fake, [>], [>]–[>]

  futhark (runic alphabet), [>]

  Gaia (Viking-ship replica), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Geirrid, [>]–[>], [>]

  Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II), [>], [>]

  Gilman, Antonio, [>]

  Gisli’s Saga, [>]

  glass beads, [>], [>]

  Glaum (nickname), [>], [>]–[>]

  Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland

  building and maintaining, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  church on property, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  discovery and excavation of ruins, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  as Gudrid’s home, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  horse skull puzzle and, [>], [>]

  meaning of name, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Skagafjord Folk Museum at, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  goats, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Gokstad ship burial, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Goodman, Dean, [>]–[>]

  GPR. See ground-penetrating radar

  GPR-Slice, [>]–[>]

  GPS grids, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Grágas (“Gray Goose”) law book, [>]

  grapes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also wine

  Graslund, Anne-Sofie, [>]–[>]

  graves, [>]. See also death

  in Greenland, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  in Iceland, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  at Keldudalur, Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  pagan, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  ship burials, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Greenland. See also Saga of the Greenlanders, The

  Brattahlid, farm of Eirik the Red, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Christianity in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  collapse of Norse society in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  diet in, [>]–[>]

  discovery and setdement of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Eiriksfjord (“Eirik’s Fjord”), [>], [>]

  Farm Beneath the Sand, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  fogs of, [>]–[>]

  icebergs surrounding, [>]–[>]

  ivory and, [>]–[>]

  Lysufjord, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  naming of, [>]–[>]

  National Museum of, Nuuk [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Nuuk, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Ocean Called Dark surrounding, [>]–[>]

  property of Gudrid in, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Sandnes (Gudrid’s home), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  wrecks of ships, [>]–[>]

  Greenland ice cap, [>], [>]

  Grettir’s
Bath (hot spring), [>]–[>], [>]

  Grettir’s Saga, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Grettir the Strong, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  ground-penetrating radar (GPR), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Gudbergsson, Gretar, [>]

  Gudrid the Far-Traveler

  at Arnarstapi, Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  basic story of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  birth of, [>], [>]–[>]

  at Brattahlid, Greenland, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  connections with other saga characters, [>]–[>]

  descendants of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Snorri (Gudrid’s son)

  death of, [>], [>]

  described, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  diet of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  family background of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  husbands of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  and kings of Norway, [>], [>]

  and L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  map of voyages, [>]–[>]

  marriage to Thorstein Eiriksson, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  marriage to Thorfinn Karlsefni, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  mother-in-law in Iceland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  near the Miramachi River, Gulf of St. Lawrence, [>], [>]–[>]

  nickname, origins of, [>], [>]

  as a nun, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  pilgrimage to Rome, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and Reynines (Reynistadur or “Rowan Stead”), Iceland, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Sandnes, Greenland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and séance, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  as skörungur (“very stirring” woman), [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Skraelings and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Vinland, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and Vinland Sagas, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Saga of Eirik the Red, The; Saga of the Greenlanders, The

  voyage from Greenland to Norway, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  voyage from Greenland to Vinland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  voyage from Iceland to Greenland, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  voyage from Norway to Iceland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>

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