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Vikings and Viking presence in North America

A guide to researching Vikings and Viking presence in North America at the Swenson Center.

Mortenson Library Collection

The Swenson Center's C. W. Mortenson collection consists of approximately 200 books on the Viking presence in North America.

This collection includes many of the standard scholarly works as well as fiction and several unique items such as a rare large paper issue of C.C. Rafn's Antiquitates Americanae Sive Scriptores Septentrionales Rerum Ante-Columbianarum in America, printed in Copenhagen in 1837 and two copies of Arthur Middleton Reeves' The Finding of Wineland the Good. The History of the Icelandic Discovery of America, published and printed in London in 1890.

Search the Library Catalog to discover these materials.