Jacques Privat

Mysteries of the Far North

The Secret History of the Vikings in Greenland and North America

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Produktbeschreibung

Jacques Privat examines in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781644114476
• ISBN-10: 164411447X
• Artikelnr.: 63629382

Autorenporträt

Jacques Privat holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne and works as a translator of Scandinavian languages. In addition to his degrees from the Sorbonne and the Arctic Center of Paris, he has studied at INALCO in Paris, the Greenland Art School, and the Institut for Eskimologi in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lives in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Claude Lecouteux
Introduction: The Arctic beyond Your Imagination
1 The Inuit in Greenland
2 The Vikings in Greenland
3 The Traditional Inuit Cultural Background as a Research Element
4 Inuit Art as a Research Element
5 Inuit Loans, Inussuk Culture, and the Vikings
6 Prolonged Contact or Cohabitation of Inuit and Vikings
7 The Testimony of the Nordic Source Texts
8 The Different Theories on Inuit and Viking Contact
9 The Church in Greenland
10 The Scandinavian Presence in the Far North
11 The European Presence in the Far North
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index