I can across this obituary and article and wondered if anyone had read
any of Helge Ingstad's books on living with the Inuit etc.

Article on Helge Ingstad:
http://balder.dep.no/ud/publ/nn/1999/22/last.html


Obituary
The Norway Post

29. Mars 2001

Explorer and adventurer Helge Ingstad has died

Norwegian explorer, author and adventurer Helge Ingstad has died at the
age
of 101. He died in his sleep at the Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo.

Ingstad was the trapper, polar explorer, Svalbard Governor, historian,-
and
the man who together with his wife Anne Stine proved that the Norwegian
Vikings were the first to find the way across the Atlantic to North
America.

Ingstad was one of the most internationally well known Norwegians.

Helge Ingstad studied to become a lawyer, but chose a life as adventurer
rather than security, as NRK puts it.

Leaving his law practice in 1926, he travelled to Canada, where he lived
as
a trapper for 4 years. He wrote a book in 1931 about his life as a
trapper,
and this is one of the most sold books ever in Norway.

Ingstad has searched for Indian tribes in Texas and Mexico, and lived
with
the Inuits in Alaska.

In the 1950s, Helge Ingstad, together with his wife Anne Stine, mapped
the
Norse settlements on Greenland. This was also the start of their most
important project.

In 1961 the couple found the remnants of the Norse settlements on
Newfoundland, and found proof that Norwegians had lived in North
America,
500 years before Christopher Colombus landed on the continent.