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A Norse Settlement of the Viking Age in Greenland

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FOR many years the attention of Danish archaeologists has been directed to Greenland, not only by reason of the romantic history of the Norse settlement in that remote land, but also by the numerous remains of buildings?the farmsteads of the settlers, and their churches.

Viking Settlers in Greenland:

and their Descendants during Five Hundred Years. By Dr. Poul Nørlund. Pp. 160. (London: Cambridge University Press; Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gads Forlag, 1936.) 7s. 6d. net.

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A Norse Settlement of the Viking Age in Greenland. Nature 138, 948–949 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138948a0

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