Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

Contents

ForeWord | Amid the Mists of Northern Waters and Words by William Cronon vii aCknoWledgments xiii introduCtion Imagining Iceland, Narrating the North 3 1 | iCelandiC landsCaPes Natural Histories and National Histories 30 Contents maps: The North Atlantic 8 | Iceland 37 | Greenland 87 | Faroe Islands 125 2 | nordiC By nature Classifying and Controlling Flora and Fauna in Iceland 61 3 | mastering the World’s edges Technology, Tools, and Material Culture in the North Atlantic 82 4 | translating and Converting Language and Religion in Greenland 104 5 | reading BaCkWard Language and the Sagas in the Faroe Islands 123 ePilogue | Whales and Men Contested Scientific Ethics and Cultural Politics in the North Atlantic 152 notes 171 BiBliograPhy 221 indeX 253 ...