The Farfarers: Before the Norse

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by Farley Mowat

Inuksuak

  Invasions:

  Armorican of Scotland

  Celtic of Europe, Britain

  Indo-European of Europe

  Norse of Britain and Europe

  Norse of Iceland

  Pictish of Northern Islands

  Roman and Celtic of Britain

  Roman of Gaul

  Vikings of Northern Islands

  Iona

  Iran

  Iranian Afghanis

  Ireland

  Irish

  Irish annals

  Irish boats

  Irish Celts, see Celts, Irish

  Irish Sea

  Irland Mikla

  Iron

  Iron Age

  Iron pyrites

  Isidore

  Islands Tidiga Bosattning (Hermanns-Audardóttir)

  Islay

  Islendingabók

  Isle of Lewis

  Isle of Man

  Isle of Mull

  Isle of St. Albe

  Isthmus

  Italy, Alban Hills (Apennines)

  Ivigtut Bight

  Ivik Island

  Ivory, see Narwhals, narwhal ivory; Walrus (tuskers) ivory

  J

  Jadeite

  Jaedar district

  Jakatars

  origins

  Jakue

  James Bay

  Jersey

  Jet

  John, Michael

  John o’Groats

  John XXI, Pope

  Jones Sound

  Jordanes

  Jura

  K

  Kablunait

  Kane Basin

  Kaneq

  Karli

  Karlsefni, Thorfinn

  Karrats Fiord

  Katla

  Kaumajet Mountains

  Kayaks

  Keel, of ship

  Keel Point

  Keewatin

  Keflavik airport

  Keltoi

  Kenneth mac Alpin

  Kent

  Kialarness

  Kiglapait Mountains

  King George IV Ecological Reserve Management Plan

  King George IV Lake

  Kingiktorsuak

  King’s Mirror, The

  Kintyre

  Kirkjugólf

  Kirkjuhammar

  Kirkwall, Orkney

  Kjarlarnes

  Knorrin

  Knud Peninsula

  Knudsson, Powel

  Kogaluk River

  Kropp

  Krossfjall

  Krossi

  Kurds

  Kuuk River

  L

  Labrador

  Okak Basin

  Okak Bay Bight

  Okak Fiord

  Okak Island

  Labrador Sea

  Labraid Loinseach

  Lagarfljót

  Lake Harbour

  Laki fissure

  Lammermuir-Moorfoot mountains

  Landings for boats

  Landnam

  Landnámabók

  Land’s End

  Land taking

  Languages lost

  L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

  Latin

  Latitudes, determination of

  Laval University of Quebec

  Laxness, Halldór

  League of Nations

  Leather, walrus, use of, see Boats, skin-covered

  Lebanon

  Lee, Robert

  Lee, Thomas

  articles see also Cartier Site

  Leif Erikson

  Leif of the Sword, see Hjorleif

  Leiruvag

  Lethbridge, Thomas C.

  Herdsmen and Hermits

  Lewis, Archibald R.:

  The Northern Seas

  Lewis (island of)

  Lichens

  Liguria

  Ligurian Alps

  Ligurians

  Limerick

  Lind, Rev. Henry

  Lindisfarne

  Linnaean classification

  Lisbon

  Litharge

  Little Climatic Optimum

  Little Cornwallis Island

  Little Ice Age

  Little Minch

  Livyers

  Lloyds River

  Loch Broom

  Loch Eil

  Lochlachan

  Loch of Stenness

  Loch Roag

  Lodestone

  Loire

  London and Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers

  Longhouses, see Houses, longhouses

  Long Range Mountains

  Longships

  Low Countries, the

  Luce Bay

  Lund Island (now Kaneq)

  Lysefiord

  M

  Mac Alpin, Kenneth

  Mac Bile, Brudei

  Mac Fergus, Oengus

  Mac Gabrain, Aedan

  Mackenzie River

  Mac Maelchon, Brudei

  Maeshowe

  Magdalen Islands (Ramea)

  Magnus Eriksson, King

  Mainland

  Malgo

  Malin Head

  Manau Gododdin

  Manitoulin Island

  Mar

  Marble Island

  Maritime Archaic tradition

  Maritime records

  Markham Bay

  Markland

  Marsden, John:

  The Fury of the Northmen

  Marseilles (Massilia)

  Marson, Ari, see Ari Marson

  Massif Centrale

  Massilia (Marseilles)

  Massiliots

  Maxwell, Moreau

  McCartney, Allen

  McCullough, Karen

  McGhee, Robert

  Ancient People of the Arctic

  Meal

  Mediterranean

  Megalithic culture

  Melville Bay

  Memorial University of Newfoundland

  Menhir

  Merchants Bay

  Merse

  Mesolithic tradition

  Metal tools

  Michéa, Jean

  Michea site

  Micmac Indians

  Micro blades, quartz

  Microliths

  Mictis

  Middens

  Middle Ages

  Middle Sea

  Middle Settlement (earlier, Western Settlement)

  M’ikmaw

  Milne, Captain

  Minches, the

  Minnthak Beach

  Miscou Island

  Mogils River

  Mons Graupius

  Montagnais

  Monuments, see Brochs; Forts; Pit houses ; Standing stones; Stone circles (henges); Tombs

  Moravian mission

  Moray Firth

  Morbihan Bay

  Morecambe Bay

  Morse

  Mount Dyultydag

  Mount Elbrus

  Mounth

  Mount’s Bay

  Mousa broch

  Mowat, Alexander

  Mowat, Claire

  Mowat, Farley:

  Canada North

  Sea of Slaughter

  Westviking

  Mowat, Walter

  Muckle Flugga

  Muddy Hole

  Muise, Leonard

  Mull

  Murus-Gallicus tribes

  Muscovy Company

  Musk ox

  Mycenae

  Mycenaeans

  Myrdalur Glacier

  Myrdalur River

  N

  Nachvak Fiord

  Naddod

  Nain

  Nain Bight

  Nansen, Fridtjof

  Narwhal

  Narwhals, narwhal ivory

  Naskapi

  National Museum, Ireland

  National Museum of Canada

  National Museum of Man

  Nattfaravik

  Nattfari

  Near East

  Nechtan, Alban king

  N
echtansmere, Battle of

  Nennius

  History of the Britons

  Neolithic period

  Nesam

  Ness taking

  Nesting shelters, eider ducks

  Newfoundland

  Alba-in-the-West

  Drogio

  Vinland

  Newfoundland Pilot

  Newland (Down Islands)

  New World

  Niall, King of the Nine Hostages

  Nicholas, Abbot of Thingeyre

  Nicholas III, Pope

  Nicholas V, Pope

  Nickel-iron meteorite

  Nicol, Keith

  Nidaros, Archbishop of

  Nidaros, see of

  Ninian

  Ninian’s Isle

  Norfolk

  Normandy

  Norse, Northmen, Vikings:

  in Britain and Ireland

  in Greenland

  in Iceland

  in Labrador

  in Newfoundland

  in Northern Islands

  in Scotland

  see also Erik Rauda; Karlsefni, Thorfinn

  North Africa

  North America

  North American Indians

  North Americans

  North Atlantic

  North Berwick

  North Channel

  Northern grounds

  Northern Islands

  Faeroes, the

  Orkney

  Shetland

  Northern Isles, The (Wainwright)

  Northern Picts

  Northern Seas, The (Lewis)

  Northfiords

  North Minch

  North Sea

  North Sydney

  Northumberland

  Northumbrians

  North Wind

  Norway

  Norwegians

  Norwegian Sea

  Notre Dame Bay

  Nuliak Island

  O

  Oban

  Oblate Mission, Povungnituk Bay

  Oddson, Bishop of Iceland

  Oddson, Einride

  “Odin’s Wolves” (Norse)

  Oengus mac Fergus

  Oestrimnides

  Offa, King

  Oil, animal, sea-mammal

  see also Seals; Walrus (tuskers)

  Okak, see Labrador

  Olaf, Bishop

  Olaf, Saint (king)

  Olaf (raider)

  Olbia

  Olfus River

  Olfus Water

  Olugi the Black

  Oporportu

  Oporto

  Orcades

  Orcadies

  Orcaella

  Orc Islands

  Orcs, orcas

  Orkney, see Northern Islands

  Orlyg

  Orns Knoll

  Oroefa

  Ortelius, Abraham:

  Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

  Osvifs Brook

  Otter (float plane)

  Outer Hebrides

  Outer Ocean

  Outlawing, banishment

  Outrigger canoes

  Out Skerries

  Ox hide, see Boats, skin-covered

  P

  Palaeo-Arctic tradition

  Palaeo-Eskimos

  Palaeo-Indians

  Palaeo-Inuit culture (Thule)

  Pamiok Island

  Papae

  Papar

  Papa Stour

  Papey

  Parsons, Ellis

  Pascal, Pope

  Pasqualigo, Pietro

  Patrick, Bishop

  Pax Romana

  Payne Bay

  Payne Lake

  Payne River

  Peat

  Pelimut

  Pennines

  Pentland Firth

  Penzance

  Peregrine falcons

  Periplus

  Persia

  Perth

  Peterhead boat

  Peti

  Petri

  Phillips Garden

  Phocaeans

  Phoenicians

  Picaud, Aymetic

  Picta

  Pict house

  Picti

  Pictland

  Pictou, Nova Scotia

  Picts (Pictones)

  Pierre Radisson, C.G.S.

  Pitch

  Pit houses, dwellings

  Pliny

  Pliny (the Elder)

  Historia Naturalis

  Plutarch

  Point Amour

  Point Riche

  Poitou

  Polar bears

  Polynyas

  Poole. Jonas

  Porcupine Strand

  Porpoises

  Port au Choix

  Port au Port

  Port au Port Bay

  Port aux Basques

  Portuchoa

  Portuguese

  Pottery

  Povungnituk

  Povungnituk Bay

  Prince Albert Sound

  Prince Edward Island

  Prince Patrick Sound

  Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, The (Hakluyt)

  Pringle, Heather

  Problems of Etymology, Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie (Bertoldi)

  Ptolemy

  Pyrénées

  Pyrites, iron

  Pytheas

  Q

  Quartz see also Ramah chert

  Quebec. Province of.

  R

  Railway (Newfoundland)

  Ramah Bay

  Ramah chert

  Ramea see also Magdalen Islands

  Rasmussen, Knud

  Ravens

  Reconstruction of history, see History, reconstruction of

  Red Indian Lake

  Red Indians, see Beothuks

  Redones

  Reindeer

  Resolution Island

  Reydarfjell

  Reydarfjordur

  Reykjadalar

  Reykjanes

  Reykjavik

  Reykness, Reyknolls

  Reyknessings

  Rhone

  Right whales

  Ring of Bookan

  Ring of Brogdar

  Rinns of Galloway

  Robinson’s River

  Rognvald

  Role of historians, see Historians, scholars, shaping recorded history

  Rolf the Redsander

  Rolph

  Roman coins discovered

  Roman Empire

  Roman galley

  Romania

  Roman invasions, see Invasions

  Romans

  Rome

  Roof construction, boats in, see Houses

  Roof construction in longhouses, see Houses

  Root, Peter De:

  History of North America Before Columbus

  Ropes, see Walrus (tuskers)

  Ross

  Ross Cuisini

  Rough Bounds

  Rousay

  Rousseau, Jacques

  Runes

  Rutherford, Robert

  Ruttier

  S

  Sable Island

  Saglek Fjord

  Sailing days

  Saint Stephan

  Samis

  Sanday Island (Orkney)

  Sandfiord

  Sandhaven

  Sandness

  Sandstone, use of

  Sandwich Bay

  Sandwick

  Sandy Island (Faeroes)

  Sandy Point

  Sardinia

  Sark

  Saxons

  Scandinavia

  Scandinavian runes

  Scapa Bay

  Scapa Sound

  Schledermann, Peter

  Crossroads to Greenland

  Voices in Stone

  Scholars shaping recorded history, see Historians, scholars

  Scilly Isles

  Scoresby Sound

  Scotland

  Albania

  Pictland

  Tarbat P
eninsula

  Tartars

  Taus

  Tay

  Taylor, William

  Telemark

  Tent rings, circles

  Tents, skin

  Teredo worm

  Terschelling, Holland

  Teutonic language

  Teutonic tribes

  Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius)

  Theodosius

  Thing

  Thiodhild

  Thomson, Callum

  Thoralf

  Thorall Gamlason

  Thorbjorg

  Thorbjorn

  Thorbjorn Vifilson

  Thord

  Thorfinn Skull-splitter

  Thorgerd

  Thorgest

  Thorgils

  Thorgilsson, Ari

  Thorhall the Hunter

  Thorkatla

  Thorkel Gellirson

  Thorodd

  Thorstein Eriksson

  Thorvald Asvaldsson

  Thorvald Eriksson

  Thorvald Kodranson

  Three Brooks

  Thule, see Iceland

  Thule culture

  Thule trading post, Greenland

  Thyle (Thule)

  Ti

  Tiber

  Tiblisi

  Tickle Cove Pond

  Tickle Cove Sands

  Tides controlled by moon

  Tilli, see Iceland

  Timaeus

  Timber

  in boat construction, see Boats, wooden

  in boat-roofed houses (see also Houses)

  in brochs

  lack of

  in trade

  Timber-laced forts

  Tin

  Tiree

  Tithes

  Tombs:

  burial chambers

  chambered

  dolmens

  stone

  tumuli

  Tongue-Odd

  Tools

  Tordsson, Bjarni

  Torfi

  Tornait, Torneq

  Torngat Mountains

  Towers, stone beacon

  Trade

  see also Valuta, valuta seekers

  Trade goods

  see also Fur trade; Valuta, valuta seekers

  Solway Firth

  Solway-Tyne

  Somerset Island

  “Sons of Death” (Norse)

  Sound of Arisaig

  South Cape

  Southern fiords (Eastern Settlement)

  Southern Picts

  Southfiords

  South Harbour

  South Sea Islanders

  Spain

  Spaniards

  Speck, Frank:

  Beothuk and Micmacs

  Spectacle Head

  Spitzbergen

  St. George’s Bay

  St. George’s Channel

  St. George’s Harbour

  St. John Bay

  St. John’s

  St. Kilda

  St. Ninian’s Isle

  St. Paul’s Inlet

  Standing stones

  Standing Stones of Stenness

  Steel Mountain, see Cairn Mountain

  Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

  Greenland

  Steinman, Father

  Steinolf the Low

  Stelae

 

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