Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iv
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS v
4. Introduction: Exploring the Global North, from the Iron Age to the Age of Sail 1
5. Contesting Marginality: The Boreal Forest of Middle Scandinavia and the Worlds Outside 9
6. Archaeological Evidence for Staraya Lagoda as an Early Scandinavian Emporium of the Global North 37
7. Gunhild’s Cross and the North Atlantic Trade Sphere 53
8. The Far North in the Eyes of Adam of Bremen and the Anonymous Author of the Historia Norwegie 77
9. The Multi-Layered Spatiality of the Global North: Spatial References and Spatial Constructions in Medieval East Norse Literature 91
10. Military Migration in the Baltic Sea Region, ca. 1400–1620 115
11. Old and New Land in the North and West: The North Atlantic on the Medieval Globe around 1500 131
12. INDEX 153