Extreme NorthScholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no man's land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial