Kirsten A. Seaver

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Kirsten A. Seaver (born August 23, 1934 in Fredrikstad ) is a Norwegian-American writer and historian.

Life

Kirsten Andresen went to the USA to study at Bryn Mawr College in 1952 . She married the history student Paul Seaver, who, after working in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, became a history lecturer at Stanford . She herself worked in university libraries and as a Norwegian teacher. After the maternity leave with two children, Kirsten Andresen Seaver began to write.

Seaver works as a freelance writer. She has published novels and historical non-fiction books. She was the co-author of a biography about Maria Wassiljevna, the wife of the Norwegian collaborator Vidkun Quisling . Her focus is on historical cartography and research into the first European voyages of the North Atlantic coasts by the Vikings .

Their research on Vinland and the Vinland map , which could date from the 12th century, led them to the German cartographer Joseph Fischer , who, according to their research results, could have put the map into circulation as a forgery of his own.

Works (selection)

  • Gudrid's saga . Novel. Oslo: Gyldendal norsk forlag, 1994
    • The Gudrid Saga: Novel . From Norway. by Ingrid Sack and ° Ase Birkenheier. Munich: Limes, 1997
  • Landet som fold av jorden . Novel. Oslo: Gyldendal norsk forlag, 1996
    • Island that fell from the earth: Roman . From Norway. by ° Ase Birkenheier. Munich: Limes, 1999
  • The frozen echo: Greenland and the exploration of North America, ca. AD 1000-1500 . 1996
  • Norumbega and Harmonia Mundi in sixteenth-century cartography , in: Imago Mundi. The International Journal for the History of Cartography , 1998
  • Øst i havet ligger Vesterøy - novel. Oslo: Gyldendal norsk forlag, 1998
    • The cuckoo child: novel . From Norway. by ° Ase Birkenheier. Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei Lübbe 2002
  • with Alexandra Andreevna Voronine Yourieff: Vidkun Quisling: Quislings unge hustru . Biography. Oslo: Gyldendal norsk forlag, 1999
  • Maps, myths, and men: The story of the Vinland map . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004
  • Mørke skyer over Solhellinga . Novel. Oslo: Juritzen, 2007
  • The last vikings: the epic story of the great Norse voyages . London: Tauris, 2010
    • On course for Thule: the Viking voyages of discovery . Translated from the English. by Karin Schuler. Stuttgart: Theiss, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Seaver, Kirsten A. 1934– , In: Encyclopedia.com, 2009
  2. ↑ a b Kirsten Andresen Seaver ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Bryn Mawr College @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alumnae.brynmawr.edu
  3. ↑ Kirsten A. Seaver: Maps, myths, and men: The story of the Vinland map , 2004, p. 297ff
personal data
SURNAME Seaver, Kirsten A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seaver, Kirsten Andresen; Andresen, Kirsten (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian-American writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Fredrikstad