KristjÁn Ahronson is Lecturer in Archaeology at Prifysgol Bangor University in Wales.

‘This groundbreaking monograph brings detail and great clarity to a topic whose treatment has frequently been piecemeal and even romantic. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the early medieval settlement of the North Atlantic.’- Jonathan Wooding (Parergon vol 32:02:2015) "[This} book represents an example of scientific integrity at its finest…Into the Ocean is a valuable book, both for the specialist focused on the environmental and human history of the North Atlantic, and the general reader interested in the philosophy of science."- Russell Fielding, University of the South, Sewanee (The AAG Review of Books vol. 6 no. 4)

• DedicationAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations, Tables and AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Literature, Language and the Imagining of the St. Lawrence IrishChapter Two: A Fruitful Conversation Between DisciplinesChapter Three: Pabbays and Paibles: Pap-Names and Gaelic and Old Norse Speakers in Scotland’s Hebridean IslandsChapter Four: Seljaland, Vestur-Eyjafjallahreppur, IcelandChapter Five: Dating the CaveChapter Six: Three Dimensions of Environmental ChangeChapter Seven: The Crosses of a Desert Place?To ConcludeReferences

KristjÁn Ahronson is Lecturer in Archaeology at Prifysgol Bangor University in Wales.

‘This groundbreaking monograph brings detail and great clarity to a topic whose treatment has frequently been piecemeal and even romantic. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the early medieval settlement of the North Atlantic.’- Jonathan Wooding (Parergon vol 32:02:2015) "[This} book represents an example of scientific integrity at its finest…Into the Ocean is a valuable book, both for the specialist focused on the environmental and human history of the North Atlantic, and the general reader interested in the philosophy of science."- Russell Fielding, University of the South, Sewanee (The AAG Review of Books vol. 6 no. 4)

• DedicationAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations, Tables and AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Literature, Language and the Imagining of the St. Lawrence IrishChapter Two: A Fruitful Conversation Between DisciplinesChapter Three: Pabbays and Paibles: Pap-Names and Gaelic and Old Norse Speakers in Scotland’s Hebridean IslandsChapter Four: Seljaland, Vestur-Eyjafjallahreppur, IcelandChapter Five: Dating the CaveChapter Six: Three Dimensions of Environmental ChangeChapter Seven: The Crosses of a Desert Place?To ConcludeReferences

KristjÁn Ahronson is Lecturer in Archaeology at Prifysgol Bangor University in Wales.

‘This groundbreaking monograph brings detail and great clarity to a topic whose treatment has frequently been piecemeal and even romantic. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the early medieval settlement of the North Atlantic.’- Jonathan Wooding (Parergon vol 32:02:2015) "[This} book represents an example of scientific integrity at its finest…Into the Ocean is a valuable book, both for the specialist focused on the environmental and human history of the North Atlantic, and the general reader interested in the philosophy of science."- Russell Fielding, University of the South, Sewanee (The AAG Review of Books vol. 6 no. 4)

• DedicationAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations, Tables and AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Literature, Language and the Imagining of the St. Lawrence IrishChapter Two: A Fruitful Conversation Between DisciplinesChapter Three: Pabbays and Paibles: Pap-Names and Gaelic and Old Norse Speakers in Scotland’s Hebridean IslandsChapter Four: Seljaland, Vestur-Eyjafjallahreppur, IcelandChapter Five: Dating the CaveChapter Six: Three Dimensions of Environmental ChangeChapter Seven: The Crosses of a Desert Place?To ConcludeReferences