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Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic

c. 870–1100 CE

Norse exploration of the North Atlantic carried sailors and settlers from Scandinavia to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and briefly North America. Ship technology, navigation, family migration and the search for land drove expansion. These voyages created new societies on the edge of the known world.

It mattered because the Viking world was not only about raiding; it was also about settlement, law, farming and exploration. The North Atlantic setting gives fiction harsh weather, exile, feud, hunger, discovery and fragile communities. Novels by Frans G. Bengtsson, Tim Severin, Linnea Hartsuyker and others connect Norse seafaring to adventure and family saga.

Related people for Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic

Cnut the Great994–1035 Emma of Normandy987–1052 Eric Bloodaxe895–954 Gunnhild, Mother of Kings910–980 Leif Erikson972–1020 Æthelred the Unready967–1016

Series

Series about Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic (1 series)

New World in Order

by Griff Hosker 7 books 4.5(12,173)

New World is a Viking exploration saga about Norse movement across the Atlantic. The sequence follows seafarers, settlers and raiders as they leave familiar waters for Greenland, Vinland and the edge of the known world. It is built around navigation, kinship, survival and the unstable relationship between discovery…

Books

30 Best Novels About Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic