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Title:

The Viking deception [(DVD) videorecording] : the truth behind the Vinland map / a Granite production for NOVA/WGBH and Channel 4 ; additional production for NOVA by Providence Pictures, Inc. for WGBH/Boston.

Format:

[(DVD) videorecording] :

Publisher:

WGBH Video,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Vinland map.
Early maps.
Geography, Medieval.--Maps.
Vikings--North America.
Documentary television programs.
America--Norse.--Norse.

Other Authors:

Dent, Jonathan.
Seaver, Kirsten A., 1934-
Galusha, Gene.
Granite Productions.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Providence Pictures, Inc.

Other Titles:

Nova (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast in 2004 on the television program: NOVA. Narrator: Gene Galusha ; with: Kirsten Seaver.

Summary:

A documentary on the controversy surrounding the authenticity of the Vinland map, which identified a large island in the Atlantic Ocean labeled "Vinilanda insula." The Vinland map predates Columbus's voyage by about fifty years and could offer proof that the Vikings discovered the New World.

ISBN:

9781593752521
1593752520

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58564685

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)