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work_mzaese4ekjdgdaht7hvovgz63a	J. M. Mancini	Discovering Viking America	2002.0	40	.pdf	application/pdf	15436	953	46	Anderson rejected more familiar immigrant literary strategies of assimilation or resistance and attempted to win a place for New World Norwegians covering Viking America, Anderson was able, at the most vulnerable moment in the trajectory of acculturation, to fashion an immigrant historyof Vikings' New World adventures.11 Thus the Vikings began to find a prominent position within general histories of the United States and of New England,12 literary works like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1841poem"The the Vikings' New World history because it had consecrated America as a In describing the VikingChristianization of New England in these terms, Anderson provided an additional incentive for native-stock Americans to accept the Vikings as the Oleson provided Canadians with an alternative history to both theColumbian conquest and American accounts of Viking discovery. the period of Icelandic discovery and contact as "the mediæval phase of Canadian history," Oleson implied that "Canada" preceded "America,"67 thus	./cache/work_mzaese4ekjdgdaht7hvovgz63a.pdf	./txt/work_mzaese4ekjdgdaht7hvovgz63a.txt