The Vikings and America Erik Wahlgren Paperback Thames & Hudson (Ancient Peoples and Places) 2000 Very Good
Lot #33
Item: ffc7-6380485

Ham Lake, MN

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1d 20h 54m

Fri, Jul 17, 2026 7:13pm CDT

High Bidder: #514192

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Lot Description: The Vikings and America by Erik Wahlgren. Paperback, Thames & Hudson (Ancient Peoples and Places series), 2000 (first paperback edition; originally published 1986). 192 pages, 103 illustrations. ISBN 978-0-500-28199-4. A readable scholarly account of the Norse voyages to North America and the Vinland question. Drawing on the Icelandic sagas and the archaeological evidence including the L'Anse aux Meadows site in Newfoundland Wahlgren weighs where Vinland really was, debunks frauds such as the Kensington Stone, and traces why the first European presence in the New World ended. By the late UCLA professor of Scandinavian and Germanic languages. Condition: Very Good. Cover clean and glossy; binding tight; pages appear clean and unmarked. A used-bookseller sticker and a university-bookstore price sticker are present on the back cover. 

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13460 MN-65
Ham Lake
MN, 55304


Phone: 763-447-9658

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Bid History

1 Bid(s)
Bidder Placed High Bid
514192
Jul 13 06:27am
$5.00