This paper searches for the most logical answer to the question about the ethnicity of the European people who attempted to settle permanently on the continent of North America around the turn of the 11th century. Were they Norwegians, Icelanders, Greenlanders, or just Norsemen? Following a short study of the ethnic identities of Icelanders and Norwegians in the Viking Age, the answer suggested is that the Vinelanders had a double ethnic identity, a Greenlandic and a Norse one.
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1 October 2009
The Ethnicity of the Vinelanders
Gunnar Karlsson
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Journal of the North Atlantic
Vol. 2 • No. sp2
2009-2010
Vol. 2 • No. sp2
2009-2010