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by Farley Mowat


  Stenness, Loch of

  Stenness, Standing Stones of

  Stephenville

  Stockholm tar

  Stone Age

  Stone circles (henges)

  Ring of Bookan

  Ring of Brogdar

  Standing Stones of Stenness

  Stonehenge

  Stonehaven

  Stonehenge

  Stone in house foundations, see Houses, boat-roofed

  Story of Scotland, The (Glover)

  Strait of Belle Isle

  Strait of Dover

  Strait of Gibraltar

  Strait of Hercules

  Strait of Swift Waters

  Strand lopers

  Strathclyde

  Strath Earn

  Straumfjord; see also Straumfiord

  Stroma Island

  Sturla the Godi

  Sty Bay

  Styrbjorn

  Suffolk

  Suines

  Sukkertoppen Ice Cap

  Surtsey

  Sussex

  Sutherland, Patricia

  Sutherland (Scotland)

  Svalbard

  Svartenhuk

  Svavarson, Gardar

  Svear

  Sveinung

  Swan Fiord

  Swans

  Swan’s Way, the

  Sweden, Swedish

  Symbol stones, in Scotland

  T

  Table Mountain

  Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

  Talus slope

  Tar, see Bituminous tar; Stockholm tar; see Seas; Walrus

  Tarbat Peninsula

  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

  Trade routes and posts

  Travois

  Trees, see Timber

  Tresta Bay

  Trinity Bay

  Trondheim

  Trypots

  Tryworks

  Tuck, James

  Tuckerman, Rob

  Tuktu

  Tumuli

  Tunit

  Tunugdliarfik

  Turf, sod in house construction, see Houses

  Turkey

  Tusker Bay

  Tuskers, see Walrus

  Tusks, walrus, see Walrus (tuskers)

  Tuvalik Point

  Tweed

  Two Gut Pond

  Tylen (Thule)

  Tyne

  Tynemouth

  U

  Uglit

  Uist

  Ulfars River

  Ulf the Squinter

  Ulster

  Umanak Fiord

  Umiaks

  Unelli

  Ungava

  Ungava Bay

  University of Calgary

  Unst

  Upernavik

  USAF Strategic Air Base

  Ushant

  USSR

  Uxisama (Ushant)

  V

  Vaigat Strait

  Valthjof

  Valuta, valuta seekers

  see also Trade; Trade goods

  Vatican archives

  Vatnajökull

  Vatnsfjördur

  Veneti tribe

  Venice

  Vercingetorix

  Vestmannaeyjar, see Westman Islands

  Vestmannsvatna

  Vestmenn

  see also Westmen

  Victoria Island

  VI doegr

  Vifill

  Vifillfel

  Vifillstofts

  Viking knorrin, see Knorrin

  Vikings, see Norse

  Vilgerd

  Vin

  Vinland, see Newfoundland

  Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, The (Skelton)

  Vita Sancti Columbae (Adomnan)

  Vitrified forts

  Voices in Stone (Schledermann)

  Volcanoes

  Vortigern

  Voyages:

  of Greenland Norse to Vinland

  of Northern Islanders to Britain

  of Northern Islanders to Faeroes

  of Northern Islanders to Tilli

  of Phocaeans along Mediterranean

  of Pytheas to Britain

  of Pytheas to Tilli

  W

  Wainwright, F.T.:

  The Northern Isles

  Wales

  Walrus (tuskers)

  hide (leather):

  in boat construction, see Boats, skin-covered

  other uses

  ivory

  oil

  slaughter of

  tar

  War chariots

  Water bears, white, see White bears

  Waterfowl

  Weapons

  Wells, Ginevra

  Wessex

  Western Islands

  Western Ocean

  Western Settlement, see Greenland

  Westman Islands

  Westmen

  Westmen’s Lake

  Westviking - The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America (Mowat)

  Whales

  slaughter of

  Whalsay

  White, Melvin

  White Bay

  White bears

  White Christ

  White clothing

  White gold

  White Man’s Land

  Whiteskull

  Wide Bay

  Willem Barentz Museum

  Wine

  Wolves

  “Wolves of Odin,”

  Wood, see Timber

  Wooden boats, see Boats, wooden

  Wool

  Wreck Bay, see Epaves Bay

  Y

  Yale Vinland map

  Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (Collins)

  Yell

  Z

  Zachareesi

  Zeno, Antonio

  Zeno, Nicholas

  Zeno, Nicolo

  Zichmn
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  FARFARING OF THE MEN OF ALBA

 

 

 


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