More Arctic Goodies
It's the middle of summer in Australia, and I'm chasing information about frozen islands. It's madness when you think about it.

Arctic, the peer-reviewed journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Études/Inuit/Studies and the ASTIS database make for research fun.


Arctic & Greenlander Norse
T. Hofstra and K. Samplonius "Viking expansion northwards: Mediaeval sources" Arctic (48)3, Sept. 1995, p. 235-247, maps)

Lehn, W.H. and Schroeder, I.I. "Polar mirages as aids to Norse navigation"
Polarforschung, bd. 49, heft 2, 1979, p. 173-187

Niels Lynnerup and Søren Nørby "The Greenland Norse: bones, graves, computers, and DNA"
Polar Record (2004), 40 : 107-111

Rutherford, G.K. "Soils of some Norse settlements in southwestern Greenland" Arctic, v. 48, no. 4, Dec. 1995, p. 324-328

Norse-Dorset interactions:
A. Angmarlik et al. "Aksagajuiuq Shipwreck" 1998 Research Report

Elena Bosch et al. "High level of male-biased Scandinavian admixture in Greenlandic Inuit shown by Y-chromosomal analysis" Human Genetics (112)4

Gísli Pálsson and Agnar Helgason "Blondes, Lost and Found: Representations of Genes, Identity, and History" Developing World Bioethics (3)2 2003
A related media article here.

Patricia D. Sutherland Strands of Culture Contact: Dorset-Norse Interactions in the Canadian Eastern Arctic

P Schledermann, KM McCullough "Inuit-Norse contact in the Smith Sound region"
in James Barrett [ed] Contact, continuity, and collapse : the Norse colonization of the North Atlantic

Schledermann, P. "Preliminary results of archaeological investigations in the Bache Peninsula region, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T." Arctic, v. 31, no. 4, Dec. 1978, p. 459-474

Schledermann, P. Gullov, H.C. [Translator] "Nordbogenstande fra Arktisk Canada [Items of Norse origin in arctic Canada]" Nordboerne I. Gronland, 1982, nr. 5-6-7, p. 218-225

P. Sutherland Strangers, Partners, Neighbours? The Helluland Archaeology Project

C. Thomson Preliminary archaeological findings from Shuldham Island, northern Labrador, 1980 Archaeology in Newfoundland & Labrador, annual report (1) 1980, p. 5-25

Norse-Thule Interactions
P. Schledermann Norse artifacts on Ellesmere Island
(Polar record, v. 19, no.122, May 1979, p. 493-494)

Schledermann "Notes on Norse finds from the east coast of Ellesmere Island, N.W.T."
Arctic, v. 33, no. 3, Sept. 1980, p. 454-463, ill.)

Dorset Archaeology
M.A. Priscilla Renouf "A review of Palaeoeskimo dwelling structures in Newfoundland and Labrador" Études/Inuit/Studies
(27)1-2 2003, p. 375-416.

Viking-Age Greenland
W.P. Adderley and I.A. Simpson "Soil and palaeo-climate based evidence for irrigation requirements in Norse Greenland" Journal of Archaeological Science 33(2006)

Medieval European-Inuit Interactions
Armstrong, T. "In search of a sea route to Siberia, 1553-1619" Arctic, v. 37, no. 4, Dec. 1984, p. 429-440

HG Jones "Explorers in reverse : 'Eskimos' in Europe, 1566-1924"
In: Abstracts : 12th Inuit Studies Conference : Inuit communities, the northern environment and global processes, 23-26 August 2000. (Aberdeen, Scotland : University of Aberdeen, 2000) p. 22
ASTIS record 54384. (Search ASTIS for the article title, and there is the abstract.)

Robert McGhee "Contact Between Native North Americans and the Medieval Norse: A Review of the Evidence" American Antiquity 49(1) 1984

Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611 by David B. Quinn
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1778349

Other Bits and Pieces
Ungava, Canada was a 12th century Norse settlement.