Jacques Privat

Jacques Privat holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne and works as a translator of Scandinavian languages. In addition to his degrees from the Sorbonne and the Arctic Center of Paris, he has studied at INALCO in Paris, the Greenland Art School, and the Institut for Eskimologi in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lives in Paris.

Books By Jacques Privat

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Mysteries of the Far North
Mysteries of the Far North
By Jacques Privat
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Presents evidence of early Norse settlement in Greenland and North America

Sharing his extensive and meticulous research, Jacques Privat reveals that the Vikings were in Greenland and Canada long before Columbus. Drawing on the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far North, he shows how the Norsemen and the Inuit formed a harmonious community--until the Norse colonies mysteriously disappeared.