by Farley Mowat
in contact with Albans
and fur trading
as victims of Europeans
Bere, bere bread
Bering Sea
Bering Strait
Berserker
Bertoldi, Vittorio:
Problems of Etymology, Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie
Billard’s Tourist Home
Bird Islands
Birka
Bishop’s Mitre
Bituminous tar
Bjarni Grimolfsson
Bjarni Herjolfsson
Bjorg
Bjorn the Breidavik-Champion
Black Death
Black dogs
Black Isle
Black Sea
Blaserk Glacier
Blood feuding
Blue Hill
Boars, the
Boat landings
Boat-roofed houses, see Houses, boat-roofed
Boats:
churaichs
coracles
curraghs
holkas
kayaks
knorrin, see Knorrin
picta
as roofs, see under Houses
skin-covered
oil used in
ox hide used in
sealskin used in
walrus hide (leather) used in
tar used in
umiaks
wooden
see also Ships
Bog iron
Bone carvings
Bonne Bay
Book of Marvels (Selenius)
Boothia Peninsula
Boresti tribe
Borgarfjord; see also Borgarfjördur
Boswarlos
Bowaters Pulp and Paper Company
Bran
Branslaek
Brattahlid
Breidafjord; see also Borgarfjördur
Brendan, Saint
Bressay
Breton peninsula
Brigantes
Brimstone
Bristol
Bristol Channel
Britain
see also Albans in Britain; Christianity in Britain; Emigration; Invasions; Norse in Britain; Northern Islands; Voyages
British Isles, see Britain
Britons
Brittany
Brochant Bay
Broch of Burgar
Broch of Carloway
Broch of Mousa
Brochs
see also Forts
Brøgger, A.E.
Ancient Emigrants
Bronze
Bronze Age
Brooks Range
Brudei mac Bile
Brudei mac Maelchon
Brynjudaisá River
Buchan
Buchanan Bay
Buffalo Museum of Science
Burgar, Broch of
Burial chambers see also Tombs
C
Cabot, John
Cabot Strait
Cadarrayco
Cadiz
Caesar, Julius
Commentaries
see also Invasions, Roman
Cairns, stone see also Towers, stone beacon
Cairn (Steel) Mountain
Caithness
Calbion
Caledonians
Calgacus
Cambrian massif
Canada Council
Canada North (Mowat)
Canadian Arctic, see Arctic, Canadian
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Northern Service
Canadian Sea
Candida Casa
Canso Strait
Cape Albion
Cape Anderson
Cape Anguille
Cape Bauld
Cape Breton Island
Cape Brewster
Cape Chidley
Cape Cod
Cape Desolation
Cape Dorset
Cape Dyer
Cape Farewell
Cape Finisterre
Cape Herschel
Cape Hope’s Advance
Cape Kiglapait
Cape Nuvotannak
Cape Race
Cape Ray
Cape Ross
Cape Smoky
Cape St. George
Cape Wrath
Cape York
Carbon-14 dating
Caribou
skins
Carlisle
Carnac
Carpathians, the
Carthage, Carthaginians
Carthaginian maritime records
Cartier Site
Carvings
Caspian Sea
Catapults
Caucasus, Albania Superior
Celts
Irish see also Emigration; Invasions
Centre for Northern Studies (Laval University)
Chambered tombs
see also Tombs
Channel, see English Channel
Channel Islands
Cheliz, Givi
Chert
Chess pieces, ivory
Chevaux de frise
Cheviot Hills
Chris’s Pond (King George IV Lake)
Christianity:
in Britain
in Greenland
in Iceland
in Labrador
in Newfoundland
in Northern Islands
in Scotland
Chronicles of Huntingdon
Churaichs
Clan and croft life
Claudianus, Claudius (poet)
Claudius I (Roman emperor)
Climatic conditions
climatic optimum
Ice Age
Little Climatic Optimum
Little Ice Age
Cloth
Clyde
Clyde-Forth
Coal
Cobblestones
Cod fishery
Codroy Valley
Coins, Roman
Colli Albani
Colline de Normandie
Collins, Henry B.
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology
Columba, Saint
Commentaries (Caesar)
Compass
Conception Bay
Conne River M’ikmaw band
Continent, the
Cook, Captain James
Coon, Carleton S.
Copper
Coracles
Corall
Cornwall
Corsica
Corte-Real, Gaspar.
Corte-Real, Miguel
Country Path
County Derry
Crassus, Publius
Crete
Crofts, see Clan and croft life; Houses, crofts
Crona, see Greenland
Cronian Sea
Cronus
Crops
Crossroads to Greenland (Schledermann)
Cumberland Peninsula
Cumberland Sound
Cumbria
Cunard ship
Cuper’s Cove (Cupids)
Cupids
Cupids Cove
Cupids Historical Society
Curiosolites
Curraghs
“Currency shortfall,”
Cutch
D
Dalriada
Dalriad Scotti
Danes
Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA)
Davis, John
Davis Strait
Dawes
Day John
Deer’s Way
De Mensura Orbis Terrae (Dicuil)
Demitrius
Denmark
Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources (Canada)
Derivation of place names (Greenland)
De Temporum Ratione (Bede)
Devon Island
Diana Bay
Diana Island
Dicuil
De Mensura Orbis Terrae
Disko Bay (Bight)
Disko Island
Doegr
Dogs
Dolly’s Lookout
Dolmens see also Tombs
Domestication of wild animals
Dorchester
Dornoch Firth
Dorset culture
Dover Strait
Down (Eiderdown) Islands
Drafdrit
Dranga Peninsula
Drill
Drogio (Alba-in-the-West)
Druidism
Dublin
Duel-fighting Hrafn
Dufthak
Dufthak’s Scar
Dunbeath
Duncansby Head
Dunnet Bay
Dunnottar
Duns
see also Brochs; Forts
E
Eadburgh
Eastern Settlement, see under Greenland
Eastfiords
East Greenland Current
Easthaven
Easthaven-under-Horn
Ebudae (Ebud Islands, now the Hebrides)
see also Hebrides, the
Échouries
Egede, Hans
Egypt
Egyptian maritime records
Eiderdown
Eider duck nesting shelters
Eider ducks
Elba (Alba)
Elbistan
Eldhouse
Eldjarn, Kristian:
Gengiō á rekja
Ellesmere Island
Emigration:
of Albans from Greenland
of Albans northwards in Scotland and to Northern and Western Islands
of Albans northwards to Thule
of Albans to Newfoundland
of Albans westwards from Tilli to Crona
of Armoricans from Gaul to Britain
of Celts to Britain
of European Albans
of Icelandic Norse to Crona
of Norse to Greenland
of Norse to Iceland.
of Northmen to Iceland
of Picts to Britain
of Thule-culture Alaskans across Arctic Canada
of valuta clans to Crona
of valuta clans to Labrador
England
English
English Channel
Engroenland
Eoganan
Epaves (Wreck) Bay
Eric, King of Norway
Erik Rauda (Erik the Red)
Eriksey
Eriksfirth
Eriksfjord; see also Eriksfiord
Erik’s Isle
Erik Valkendorf, Archbishop
Erin
Eskimoization of Norse
Eskimos, see Inuit
Essex
Estotiland
Europe
trade in
turmoil in
use of maritime records in
see also under Invasions
Europeans:
in Greenland
in Iceland
in Newfoundland
pre-Columbian presence in North America
in Ungava
Exploits River
Eyjolf the Foul
Eynhallow Sound
Eyrbyggja Saga
Eyvind Eastman
F
Faeroes, see Northern Islands
Faience beads
Fair Isle
Falcons
Falmouth Bay
Farfarer
Fame Islands
Far Ones
Faxaflói
Faxi
Feathers
Fetlar
Fife
Finnbogi
Finns
Firearms
Firth of Clyde
Firth of Forth
Firth of Tay
Fischer-Møller, K.
Fisheries
cod
decline of
Fjalir
Flanders
Flat Bay
Flat Bay Brook
Flat Island
Flat Island Haven
Flint
Flóki
Flóki’s Bight
Flower’s Cove
Foggy Strait
Ford, Jimmy
Forth
Fortrui
Forts
blocking
timber-laced
see also Brochs
Foster brothers (Ingólf and Leif)
Foula
Foundations, house, see Houses
Foxe Basin
Foxes
France
Franks
Frederik, Bishop
French
in Newfoundland
French fishing vessels
Freydis Eriksdottir
Frisland
Frobisher Bay
Funzie Head
Furdurstrandir
Fur trade
Fury of the Northmen, The (Marsden)
“Fury of the Northmen,”
G
Gades (Cadiz)
Gaelic
Gaels
Galicia
Galloway
Gardar
Gardar, Diocese of
Gardar’s Island
Gardar Svavarson
Garonne
Gaul
see also Invasions
Geese
Geirhild
Geirhild’s Water
Geirrod
Gemstones
Gengiō á rekja (Eldjarn)
Georgia
Germany
Gibbon, Edward:
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gildas
Glen Albyn
Glen Urquhart
Glover, Janet:
The Story of Scotland
Gnupsson, Eric, Bishop
Goatfell
Godfjord
Godthaab
Godthaab Bight
Godthaab fiords
Gold
Goodlad, Alistair
Grains
Grampian Mountains
Grampuses
Grand Banks
Grapes, wild
Grapevines
Grass, The
Grasses, The
Grasslands
Greater Ireland (Irland Mikla)
Great Glen
Great Island (Newfoundland)
Great More
Greek maritime records
Greeks
Greenland
Crona
Eastern Settlement
Western Settlement
Greenland Sea
Greenland (Stefansson)
Greipar
Grimble, Ian
Highland Man
Gronland
Groswater Bay
Gudleif Gudlaugson
Gudleif (son of Ari Marson)
Gudmonson, Jon
Gudrid
Guernsey
Guide fences (caribou)
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Gulf Stream
Gunnbjorn’s Land
Gunnbjorn Ulf Kragesson
Gurness (broch at)
Guy, John
H
Hadrian’s Wall
Hakluyt, Richard
Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, The
Halgoland
Hallbjorn
Halldor
Hallgerd
Hamarsfjördur
Hamburg and Bremen, see of
Hamilton Inlet
“Happy warriors,”
Harald the Fairhaired, King
Harold the Hairy, King
Harp, Elmer
Harp seals
Harris
Harvard University
Hasco
Hastein
Haukadale
Havskip (knorr)
Hay
Hearth rows
Hearths
Hebridean Sea
Hebrides, the
Hebron
Hebron Fiord
Heimaey
Helga
Helgi Bjola
Helgi (brother
of Finnbogi)
Helgi the Lean
Hellisfitar
Helluland (Flatrockland)
Henges, see Stone circles (henges)
Hengist
Herding
Herdsmen and Hermits (Lethbridge)
Hergils Hnappraz
Herjolf
Herjolf’s Haven
Herjólfsnes
Hermanns-Audardóttir, Margrét
Islands Tidiga Bosattning
Herstein
Hibernia
Hides, use of, see Boats; Caribou; Fur trade; Seals; Sea-mammals; Walrus
Hierne
High Arctic, see Arctic, high
Highland Man (Grimble)
High-seat posts
Hindu Kush
Historia Naturalis (Pliny)
Historia Norwegiae
Historians, scholars, shaping recorded history
History, reconstruction of see also Farfarer
History of North America Before Columbus (Root)
History of the Britons (Nennius)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon)
Hjorleif
Hjorleifshöfdi
Hólar
Holkas
Holmstein
Holy Island
Honey
Hood seals
Hop
Horn
Horses
Horthaland
Horwood, Harold
Hot springs
House pits
Houses:
boat-roofed
foundations, stone for
crofts
longhouses
roof construction in
sod and turf
see also Brattahlid
Howe of Mearns
Hoy Island
Hoy Sound
Hrafn, Duel-fighting
Hrafn (Norse seafarer)
Hrafnsfjord
Hrafn the Limerick Trader
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay freight canoes
Hudson’s Bay Company
Hudson Strait
Huna
Hundred Years War
Hunter-gatherers
Hunting
Husanotra
Húsavík
Hvalfjördur
Hvalross
Hvarfsgnipa
Hvitá Valley
Hvítramannaland, see Baffin Island
Hyperborea
I
I Alpi
Iberia
Ice Age
Iceland
Thule
Tilli
Icelanders
Icelandic annals
Ice Man, the
Îles de la Madeleine
see also Magdalen Islands
Illugi
Imaha
Immrama
Indians, Red, see Beothuks
Indo-European invasions, see Invasions
Ingólf
Ingólfsfjall
Ingólfshöfdi
Ingstad, Helge
Inland Ice
Inland Sea
Inner Sea
Innu, see Beothuks
Inuit (Eskimos)
Inukshuk