In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2)

A comprehensive account of medieval and early-modern northern exploration, tracing Norse voyages from Greenland to Wineland and their interactions with indigenous peoples, and evaluating saga, annal, and geographical evidence for landings and timber trade. It examines the legendary identification of Wineland with the classical Fortunate Isles, contrasting poetic lays and prose sagas with practical details such as ship movements and a 1347 voyage. Later chapters discuss Norwegians' expeditions to the White Sea, whaling and sealing, the mapping of the North in medieval cartography, and subsequent Portuguese and English ventures toward North America, concluding with reflections on the decline of Norse Greenlandic settlements.