Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
Jon Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland
Introduction
1 Vinland on the brain: remembering the Norse Tim William Machan
Part I: Imagination and ideology
2 Journeys to the centre of the mind: Iceland in the literary and the professorial imagination Seth Lerer
3 The Viking tower in Newport, Rhode Island: fact, fiction, and film Kevin J. Harty
4 Critiquing Columbus with the Vinland sagas Matthew Scribner
5 Vinland and white nationalism Verena Hofig
Part II: Landscapes and cultural memory
6 Migration of a North Atlantic seascape: Leif Eiriksson, the 1893 Worlds Fair, and the Great Lakes landnam Amy C. Mulligan
7 Norwegian-American missions of education and Old Norse literature Bergur orgeirsson
8 Americans in Sagaland: Iceland travel books 1854-1914 Emily Lethbridge
9 The good sense to lose America: Vinland as remembered by Icelanders Simon Halink
Part III: Recasting the past
10 Spectral Vikings in nineteenth-century American poetry Angela Sorby
11 Who is this upstart Hitler?: Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War Jon Karl Helgason
12 There's no going back: The Dark Knight and Balder's descent to Hel Dustin Geeraert
13 Old Norse in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaimans American Gods Heather ODonoghue
Bibliography
Index