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Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants
in the Arctic
How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Green-
land 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.
Norse 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.
In 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.
Arnved Nedkvitne
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:
The
Peasant Economy of the Atlantic and North Sea Coast of Norway 1500–1730
(Oslo
1988, translation of the Norwegian title),
Lay Belief in Norse Society
(Copenhagen
2009) and
The German Hansa and Bergen 1100–1600
(Cologne 2014).
Norse Greenland: Viking
Peasants in the Arctic
Arnved Nedkvitne
First published 2019
by Routledge
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2019 Arnved Nedkvitne
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Nedkvitne, Arnved, 1947- author.
Title: Norse Greenland : Viking peasants in the Arctic / Arnved Nedkvitne.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes
bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018003796| ISBN 9780815366294 (hardback : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781351259606 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Vikings—Greenland—History. | Peasants—Greenland—
History.
Classification: LCC DL65 .N43 2019 | DDC 998/.2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003796
ISBN: 978-0-8153-6629-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-25960-6 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK

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