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

  voyages in Vinland, [>], [>]–[>]

  Gudrun the Fair, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Guenevere, Queen, [>], [>]

  Gulf of St. Lawrence, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Gull-Thorir’s Saga, [>]

  Gunnar of Hlidarendi, [>], [>], [>]

  hairstyles, [>]

  Hakluyt, Richard, [>]

  Hakon the Good (king of Norway), [>]

  Hallbera, Abbess, [>], [>]

  Halldorsson, Olafur, [>]–[>]

  Hallgerd Long-Legs, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hallveig (Gudrid’s mother), [>], [>]

  Harald Fine-Hair (king of Norway), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hauk’s Book, [>]–[>]

  Havhingsten (“The Sea Stallion,” dragonship), [>], [>]–[>]

  hay and haymaking, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hayeur-Smith, Michele, [>]

  Hebrides, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hedeby, [>]–[>]

  Heidarviga Saga, [>]

  Hekla. See Mount Hekla, Iceland

  Helgafell, Iceland, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Helgason, Agnar, [>], [>]–[>]

  Hellisvellir (“Fields by the Cave”), Iceland, [>], [>]

  Helluland (“Flat Stone Land”), [>], [>], [>]

  Hermann of Reichenau, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Hidden Folk (elves), [>], [>]

  Hop, [>]–[>]

  horses, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  as food, [>], [>]

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

  skull at Glaumbaer, [>], [>]

  Horsford, Eben Norton, [>], [>]

  house building. See also turf houses

  concrete in, [>]

  turf in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  wood in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  household size, [>], [>]–[>]

  Howley, James P., [>]

  hummocks, [>]–[>]

  Hvamm, Iceland, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  ice

  glaciers, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Greenland ice cores, [>], [>]

  icebergs and drift ice, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Iceland

  Arnarstapi, [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

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

  democracy in, [>]–[>]

  diet in, [>]–[>], [>]

  discovery and settlement of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also Book of Settlements, The

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

  economy of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

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

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

  Golden Age of, [>]

  Helgafell, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Hellisvellir (“Fields by the Cave”), [>], [>]

  Hvamm, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  independence movement, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Keldudalur, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Kolkuos, [>], [>]

  Kornsa, [>], [>]

  Laugarbrekka (“Hot-Springs Slope”), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  legal system of, [>]–[>]

  National Museum of, Reykjavik, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

  Skagafjord. See Skagafjord (“Bay of the Headlands”), Iceland

  Stong (house in southern Iceland), [>]

  Stora Seyla (“Big Marsh”), [>], [>], [>]

  Sveigakot, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  trade agreement with Norway, [>]

  volcanic eruptions, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also Mount Hekla, Iceland

  Icelandic feldspar, [>]

  Icelandic sagas. See also Egil's Saga; Grettir’s Saga; Saga of Eirik the Red, The; Saga of the Greenlanders, The; Saga of the Volsungs, The; Laxdaela Saga; Njal’s Saga

  description of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  preservation of, [>]–[>]

  Saga of Gudrid, [>]

  status of women in, [>]–[>]

  truth in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  writing of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  illegitimacy, attitudes toward, [>], [>], [>]

  inch, concept of, [>]

  indigo, [>]

  Ingimund the Old, [>]–[>], [>]

  Ingstad, Anne Stine, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Ingstad, Helge, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Inuit, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Irish Annals, [>]

  Irish National Museum, [>]

  iron, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  irrigation, [>]

  Island-Candle. See Oddny Eykindill

  Isleif, Bishop, [>]

  Isle of Lewis, Scotland, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  ivory

  elephant, [>], [>]

  walrus, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  jasper, [>]–[>]

  Jesch, Judith, [>]

  jewelry, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Jochens, Jenny, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Jones, Gwyn, [>]–[>], [>]

  juniper, [>], [>]

  Karlsefni (Gudrid’s husband)

  death of, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  family property in Reynines, Iceland, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

  lineage of, [>], [>], [>]

  marriage to Gudrid the Far-Traveler, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Skraelings and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

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

  voyage to Greenland, [>], [>]–[>]

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

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

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

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

  voyages in Vinland, [>], [>]–[>]

  Karlsson, Gunnar, [>], [>]

  Katla, [>]–[>], [>]

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

  Keller, Christian, [>]

  Kellogg, Robert, [>]

  Kent, Rockwell, [>]

  Ketil Flat-Nose, [>]–[>]

  King’s Mirror, The, [>]–[>], [>]

  kings of Norway, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Kipling, Rudyard, [>]

  Kjartan, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  knarr (Viking cargo ship), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Knarrarbringu (“Ship-Breast”), [>], [>]

  Knut the Great (king of England and Denmark), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Kolkuos, Iceland, [>]

  Kornsa, Iceland, [>], [>]

  Kristjansdottir, Steinunn, [>]

  Kundera, Milan, [>]

  Lamont, James, [>]–[>]

  Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart (Chretien de Troyes), [>], [>]

  Land
námabók (“Book of Land-Taking”). See Book of Settlements, The

  Landnám (Settlement Layer) tephra, [>]

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

  artifacts of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Gudrid the Far-Traveler and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  longhouses at, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Last Judgment, [>], [>]

  Latin alphabet, [>]–[>]

  Laugarbrekka (“Hot-Springs Slope”), Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Laxdaela Saga, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  legal system, of Iceland, [>]–[>]

  Leiðarstjarna (North Star), [>]–[>]

  Leif Eiriksson, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  birth of, [>]

  Christianity and, [>]–[>], [>]

  discovery of Vinland, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and L’Anse aux Meadows, [>], [>]

  relationship with Thorgunna of the Hebrides, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  rescue of Gudrid, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Lewis, C. S., [>]

  Lewis chessmen, [>], [>]

  lice, [>]

  lichen purple dye, [>], [>]

  Lindisfarne, sack of, [>], [>]–[>]

  linen, [>]–[>], [>]

  Little Ice Age, [>]

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [>]

  longfire, [>], [>]–[>]

  longhouses, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  construction of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

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

  in Greenland, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  in Iceland, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also Glaumbaer (“Farm of Merry Noise”), Iceland

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

  midden of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  pit houses and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  looms, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  loom weights, [>], [>], [>]

  lost-wax process, [>]–[>]

  lozenge twill, [>]

  Luckert, Karl, [>]–[>]

  Luidprand of Cremona, [>]

  Lysufjord, Greenland, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  magic, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Magnusson, Arni. See Arni Magnusson

  Magnusson, Magnus, [>]

  manuscripts, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  marine-reservoir effect, [>]

  Markland (“Forest Land”), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  marriage, [>]–[>]. See also sexuality; Gudrid the Far-Traveler

  Marshalltown Company trowels, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Martensson, Linda, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  mattresses, turf used in, [>]

  McAleese, Kevin, [>]–[>]

  McGhee, Robert, [>]

  McGovern, Tom, [>]

  merchants, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Merlin, [>], [>], [>]

  Micmac Indians, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  middens (garbage pits), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  milk/dairying, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  mirages, [>]–[>]

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

  mitochondrial DNA, [>]

  Moe, Anne Stine. See Ingstad, Anne Stine

  Morris, William, [>], [>]

  Motzfeldt, Kristjana, [>]–[>]

  Mount Hekla, Iceland

  eruption of 870, [>]

  eruption of 1000, [>]

  eruption of 1104, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Mowat, Farley, [>]

  mythology. See Norse gods

  nails, [>], [>]–[>]

  National Science Foundation, [>]–[>], [>]

  Native Americans. See Skraelings; Beothuck Indians; Micmac Indians

  navigation, [>]–[>]

  astrolabe in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  challenges of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  distance measures in, [>]–[>]

  New Brunswick, Canada, [>], [>], [>]

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

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

  Bird Cove, [>]

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

  Nikulas (monk), [>], [>]

  nippers, [>]

  Njal’s Saga, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Norman Conquest (1066), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Norse gods, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Norsemen. See Vikings

  North Pole, magnetic effects of, [>]–[>]

  Norway

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

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

  kings of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Oseberg ship burial, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  as ruler of Iceland, [>]

  trade agreement with Iceland, [>]

  Viking raids in, [>]–[>]

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

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

  Nyegaard, Georg, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  oak, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Ocean Called Dark, [>]–[>]

  Oddny Eykindill, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Olafsson, Gudmundur, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Olaf the Fat/Olaf the Saint (king of Norway), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Olaf the Peacock, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Olaf the White (king of Dublin), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Olaf Tryggvason (king of Norway), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Olason, Vesteinn, [>]

  Old Norse, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]. See also Icelandic sagas

  Old Norse Homily Book, [>], [>]

  Ongul. See Thorbjorn Ongul

  Orkney Islands, [>], [>]

  Orm (Gudrid’s foster-father), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Oseberg (Viking ship replica), [>], [>]

  Oseberg ship burial, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Ostergard, Else, [>]–[>]

  Otherworld, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>].

  overgrazing, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  pagan gods. See Norse gods

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

  pagan sacrifices, [>]

  Pax Dei (the Peace of God), [>]

  peat, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  peat ash, [>], [>]–[>]

  Pencak, William, [>]

  permafrost, [>], [>]

  phosphate testing, [>]

  photography, [>]–[>]

  photosynthesis, [>]

  pickling process, [>], [>]

  pigs, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  pilgrimage

  concept of, [>]

  to Iceland, [>]

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

  Pilgrim Way, [>], [>], [>]

  pit houses, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  plain twill, [>]–[>], [>]

  Pohl, Frederick J., [>]

  Polaris. See Leiðarstjarna (North Star)

  pollen analysis, [>], [>], [>]

  polyethylene glycol, [>]

  popes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  pork, [>]–[>], [>]. See also pigs

  pregnancy, [>]–[>]

  Prose Edda (Snorri Sturluson), [>], [>]

  Psalter, [>], [>]

  quadrant, [>]–[>]

  Quebec, Canada, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Radiocarbon, [>], [>]

  Ragnarok, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Ramah chert, [>]

  ransacking, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–
[>]

  Raven-Floki, [>]–[>]

  Rehberger, Linda, [>]–[>]

  reliquary boxes, [>]–[>], [>]

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

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

  Richer, [>]

  rivets, in Viking ships, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

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

  Rosing, Jens, [>]–[>]

  Roskilde, Denmark, [>]–[>], [>]

  Roswitha of Gandersheim, [>]

  Roussell, Aage, [>], [>]

  rowan, [>]. See also Reynines (Reynistadur or “Rowan Stead”), Iceland.

  runes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  saddles, turf used for, [>]

  saga, See Icelandic sagas

  Saga of Bard Snaefellsass, [>], [>]

  Saga of Bjorn the Hitardale Champion, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Saga of Eirik the Red, The, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Saga of Gudrid, [>]

  Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent Tongue, The, [>]

  Saga of the Greenlanders, The, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Saga of the Volsungs, The, [>]–[>]

  Saga Siglar (Viking ship replica), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  salmon, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

  church at, [>], [>]

  Schlederman, Peter, [>]

  Scotland

  Hebrides and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Unn the Deep-Minded emigrates to Iceland, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Scott, Walter, [>]–[>], [>]

  sea ice. See ice, icebergs and drift ice

  seals, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Seville, Isidore de, [>]–[>]

  Seville, sack of, [>], [>]

  sexuality, [>]–[>]. See also marriage

  Grettir’s rape scene, [>]

  Guenevere-Lancelot relationship, [>], [>]

  Gunnlaug-Geirrid-Katla relationship, [>]–[>], [>]

  Hallgerd Long-Legs and, [>]–[>], [>]

  illegitimacy, attitudes toward, [>], [>], [>]

  love scenes in the sagas, [>]–[>]

  Oddny Eykindill-Bjorn relationship, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  pregnancy and, [>]–[>]

  roles of women and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Thorgunna of the Hebrides-Leif Eiriksson relationship, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Thurid-Bjorn relationship, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

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

  shaggy weave (fake fur), [>], [>

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