Chapter
Chapter 1. No Forwarding Address
Physical Description of Greenland
Modern Voices of Gloom and Doom
Chapter 2. Eirik the Red Knew Where to Go
Medieval Geographical Knowledge
A Daring Real Estate Venture
Establishing Homes in the Wilderness
Chapter 3. Forcing a New Homeland
A New Society Takes Shape
Putting Food on the Table
The Role of Domestic Animals
Cow Versus Sheep and Goats
Voyages to the High Arctic
Chapter 4. Leif Eiriksson Explores Another New Land
Life at L'Anse aux Meadows
Discovering Vinland Grapes
Encountering Vinland Natives
Chapter 5. Who Were the Skraelings?
The Spherical World Picture
Monstrous Races of the Far North
The West Had Finally Met the East
Norse Interaction with Arctic Natives
Chapter 6. Relations with Church and Crown
Geographical Independence
Christianity Reaches the Northwest Atlantic
Imported from the British Isles
Greenland Becomes a Diocese
Royal Pressure From Norway
The Sea was Still the Highway
Small Royal Impact on Greenland
Tithes and Taxes Increase
No More Resident Gardar Bishops
Did the Greenlanders Lose their Christian Faith?
Marketable Greenland Commodities
Early Markets and Trade Routes
Consolidation of the European Markets
Norse Greenland and Norwegian Trade Legislation
The Art of 'Drifting Off'
Chapter 8. Contact with Iceland
Disease: An Unwelcome Travel Companion
Norwegian Politics in Iceland
End of the Icelandic Commonwealth
Iceland Under the New Rule
Bjorn Einarsson 'Jerusalem-Farer' and his Circle
Thorstein Olafsson Plans his Future
Leaving Greenland in 1410
Another Transfer of Royal Power
Chapter 9. The English in the North Atlantic
The Sweet Smell of Profit
King Eirik Comes to Power
Thorstein Olafsson's Circle and the English
Where was Thorstein in 1419-20?
The Ground Speaks Clearly
Sharpened Conflict with the English
The English Tighten Their Grip
Passing the Generational Torch
The English Encounter a Headwind
Chapter 10. Where did the Norse Greenlanders Go?
Changes in Animal Husbandry
Greenland and the North Atlantic Economy
The Early Cartographic Record
Portuguese Experience and the 1502 'Cantino' Map with Greenland
English Experience and the 1507/08 Ruysch Map
Joao Fernandes, Llavrador
Tracing Joao Fernandes and Richard Warde
Chapter 11. Who Went Looking for Them?
Erik Valkendorf's Greenland Plans
Erik Valkendorf and Ivar Bardsson
Ivar's Wider Sphere of Influence
The 'New' Greenland Emerges
Misplaced, but Not Forgotten
Early Post-Valkendorf Attempts to Reach the Norse
Concerted Efforts by Christian IV
Claus Christoffersen Lyschander (1558-1624)
Confronting a Harsh World
Postscript: The Fictional Norse in North America
Earl Henry Sinclair of Orkney
The Kensington Rune Stone
Last Vikings, The
：The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers
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