Glimpses from Danish pre-history

Home | Subsccribe | News | Shop | TV | Events | Links | Contact | Free Info | Advertise | Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America The Fate of Greenland's Vikings February 28, 2000 by Dale Mackenzie Brown Arm of Ericsfjord, on which Eric the Red had his farm (Dale Mackenzie Brown) Some people call it the Farm under the Sand, others Greenland's Pompeii. Dating to the mid-fourteenth century, it was once the site of a Viking colony founded along th ...

Detta dokument finns också i en svenskspråkig version. This paper was originally written in Swedish in early 1995 and published in issue #1995:4 of Fornvännen; the Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research; published by the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm. It was then translated into English, slightly revised and published in issue 8 (winter 1997) of The European Archaeologist, the newsletter of The European Associaton of Archaeologists. The present text is ide ...