{"product_id":"norse-greenland-viking-peasants-in-the-arctic-paperback","title":"Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArnved Nedkvitne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow could a community of 2000-3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985-1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArnved Nedkvitne\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History from the universities of Trondheim and Oslo. His main field of study has been pre-modern Norwegian social and economic organisation. Relevant monographs include: \u003ci\u003eThe Peasant Economy of the Atlantic and North Sea Coast of Norway 1500-1730\u003c\/i\u003e (Oslo 1988, translation of the Norwegian title), \u003ci\u003eLay Belief in Norse Society\u003c\/i\u003e (Copenhagen 2009) and \u003ci\u003eThe German Hansa and Bergen 1100-1600\u003c\/i\u003e (Cologne 2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 446\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780839866656,"sku":"9780367585808","price":100.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d0adb3d1433deeb67b9d4d6f81e5c9da.webp?v=1780538343","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/norse-greenland-viking-peasants-in-the-arctic-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}