Mysteries of the Far North: The Secret History of the Vikings in Greenland and North America by Jacques Privat

Author:Jacques Privat [Privat, Jacques]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781644114476
Amazon: 164411447X
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Goodreads: 60560724
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2022-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

The Bellicose Theory or the Theory of Inuit-Scandinavian Confrontation

In this category I include all the varying hypotheses that end up with a Norse disappearance due to the Inuit. This is the theory that has prevailed longest and extensively, having the advantage of easily responding to the patterns of the time or to accompanying ethnocentric biases: the representatives of Christian civilization were massacred by savages. Even McGovern takes his distance from this position: “The simplest model is also the oldest. Hans Egede’s contemporaries believed that the Inuit had invaded and exterminated the Scandinavian colonists.”36

This model is based on traditional Inuit lore and stories collected by Poul Egede (son of the famous pastor Hans) and cited by several researchers: Inge Kleivan, Knud Krogh, and so forth. The bulk of these stories share:

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