Into the Ocean: Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North

‘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

“This is an important and detailed book, based on serious scholarship, fieldwork, and recording. It will re-energize the debate around the earliest settlement of Iceland.”

David Griffiths, Department of Archaeology, University of Oxford

“Ahronson’s archaeological material is given in exhaustive descriptive and photographic detail, making a tempting case for the settlement in c. 800 of a community of Christian Gaels from Ireland or the western British Isles on the southern Icelandic coast.”

Richard North, Department of English, University College London