Boland went somewhat overboard, but since the discovery and excavation of L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland by Helge Ingstad in the early 1960s, there has been no question that the Norse were present at least on the coast of North America - and in surprisingly large numbers.ĭavis follows the “baby steps” approach, from Norway to Iceland to Greenland to the western continent, which hardly requires that one sail out of sight of land. Half a century ago, in They All Discovered America, Michael Boland identified what he called the “NEBC Principle” - “No Europeans Before Columbus.” This is the general attitude of most professional academic historians and they tend to condemn any contrary discussion without even considering the alternatives. An author of more than two dozen books and dozens of articles, Dr Davis has produced both primary research and popular accounts which seek to make scholarship accessible to a wide audience. Lexicographic work includes Dictionary of Surrey English, while the discipline of surname study has been developed in Research Your Surname and Your Family Tree. Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland examines the cultural and linguistic background of the Northern Isles, while Vikings in America sets out the story of the Norse discovery and settlement of North America. His book Contemporary Studies in Old English and Old Icelandic was supported by a British Academy research grant and by the University of Iceland. His research interests include the mediaeval Germanic languages and cultures of the North Atlantic region.
He is also academic advisor to the Fara Heim project for academic research around the history and archaeology of Hudson Bay and the Canadian Arctic. He is series editor of two Peter Lang monograph series, Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics and Studies in Historical Linguistics. He is tutor for the University of Buckingham’s Stonehenge MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and is editor of the Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, which has developed from earlier journals edited by Dr Davis, including Journal of Language and Linguistics and Lingua et Linguistica. He has lectured at the Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Northumbria and the Open University. He holds a PhD in Anglo-Saxon from the University of St Andrews. Dr Graeme Davis is an English Linguist at the University of Buckingham.
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