We now know that vast portions of the world were interconnected throughout the Middle Ages and, moreover, that the entire circumpolar North was a contact zone in its own right. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the boreal globe from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century.

Editor’s Introduction, by Carol Symes Contesting Marginality: The Boreal Forest of Inland Scandinavia and the Worlds Outside, by Karl-Johan Lindholm The Findings of the Scandinavian Circle Antiquities from Staraja Ladoga as Evidence of Cultural and Trading Contacts, by Natalja Grigorjeva Consider the Walrus: Gunhild’s Cross and the North Atlantic Trade Sphere, by Robyn Barrow Islands in the Ocean: The Far North in the Eyes of Adam of Bremen and the Anonymous Author of Historia Norwegie, by Tatjana N. Jackson The Multi-Layered Spatiality of the Global North: Spatial References and Spatial Constructions in Medieval East Norse Literature, by Alexandra Petrulevich Military Migration in the Baltic Sea Region, ca. 1400–1650, by Martin Neuding Skoog Old and New Land in the North and West: The North Atlantic on the Medieval Globe around 1500, by Felicitas Schmeider