Thule

This volume assembles the full historical record of the Arctic as it was known, mapped, and remembered from antiquity through the modern age. Drawing on Greek, Roman, Norse, Islamic, and Indigenous sources, Thule traces the development of northern knowledge-from early navigation and geography to the written testimonies that defined the limits of the world.

Each chapter presents primary accounts supported by critical commentary, restoring texts long separated by language and time.

This edition also contains complete, newly rendered English translations of:

The Periplus of Hanno, King of the Carthaginians - the earliest surviving account of Atlantic exploration.

The Full Testimony of Ottar of Hålogaland, as preserved in The Old English Orosius - the first ethnographic record from within the Arctic Circle.

Eiríks saga rauða - The Saga of Eirik the Red - the Norse epic that chronicles humanity's westernmost reach before modernity.

Combining direct evidence with careful synthesis, Thule offers a comprehensive history of the northern world-its exploration, its mythology, and its enduring place in the record of human discovery.