“Benedicte Ingstad's biography of In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads’ daughter Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, sharing poignant details from her parents’ private letters, personal diaries, their dinner table conversations, and Benedicte’s own participation in her parents’ excavations.
Benedicte witnesses and writes A GRAND ADVENTURE A Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America Benedicte Ingstad Hard cover, pages McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 29 This is a biography of Helgi and Anne Stine Ingstad written by their daughter, Benedicte.
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Relying on their private correspondences and incomplete autobiographies, her own memories of their work in Newfoundland, Canada, and more, Benedicte reveals how her parents unearthed one of history’s greatest archaeological finds at L’Anse aux Meadows. Benedicte INGSTAD | Cited by In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads’ daughter Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, sharing poignant details from her parents' private letters, personal diaries, their dinner table conversations, and Benedicte’s own participation in her parents' excavations.
PREFACEWhen writing this biography of my Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America is not just grounded in biography, but in social history and archaeol-ogy. It is a story that has great piquancy since it is told by the Ingstads’ daughter, Benedicte, professor emerita of medical anthropology at the University of Oslo. The volume chronicles.
Benedicte Ingstad, the editor referred In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads' daughter Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, sharing poignant details from her parents' private letters, personal diaries, their dinner table conversations, and Benedicte's own participation in her parents' excavations.
Benedicte Ingstad and Matthew Kohrman Ingstad, Benedicte In , Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad discovered the remains of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern shore of Newfoundland. Helge was a Norwegian lawyer turned.
It's an adventure book, In , Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America - a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.