A new response to Arnved Nedkvitne

Uniforum 28.10.2018

Sanne Boessenkool, Bastiaan Star, University of Oslo and James H. Barrett; University of Cambridge

We remain confident that our cautiously interpreted papers both respect and add to existing historical knowledge.

That is the wish three scientists from University of Oslo and University of Cambridge express in a response to the critical points of view written by the historian Arnved Nedkvitne in Uniforum.

We thank Arnved Nedkvitne for his continuing interest in our work, even if we disagree with his negative assessment of its novelty. Of course historians have long SPECULATED that Greenland was the major source of walrus ivory in Viking-age and medieval Europe. The two quotes from Jette Arneborg and Else Roesdahl (provided by Nedkvitne himself) clearly reflect that speculation: "

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