Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland

Introduction
1 Vinland on the brain: remembering the Norse - Tim William Machan
Part I: Imagination and ideology
2 Journeys to the centre of the mind: Iceland in the literary and the professorial imagination - Seth Lerer
3 The 'Viking tower' in Newport, Rhode Island: fact, fiction, and film - Kevin J. Harty
4 Critiquing Columbus with the Vinland sagas - Matthew Scribner
5 Vinland and white nationalism - Verena Höfig
Part II: Landscapes and cultural memory
6 Migration of a North Atlantic seascape: Leif Eiriksson, the 1893 World's Fair, and the Great Lakes landnám - Amy C. Mulligan
7 Norwegian-American 'missions of education' and Old Norse literature - Bergur Þorgeirsson
8 Americans in Sagaland: Iceland travel books 1854-1914 - Emily Lethbridge
9 The good sense to lose America: Vinland as remembered by Icelanders - Simon Halink
Part III: Recasting the past
10 Spectral Vikings in nineteenth-century American poetry - Angela Sorby
11 'Who is this upstart Hitler?': Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War - Jón Karl Helgason
12 'There's no going back': The Dark Knight and Balder's descent to Hel - Dustin Geeraert
13 Old Norse in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaiman's American Gods - Heather O'Donoghue
Bibliography
Index