VLVL2 (1): Title and Setting (part 2)

[Tim Strzechowski]

Suggested Links:

On the history of this place called "Vineland":

Leif Erikson:
http://www.asij.ac.jp/elementary/gr5web/c5r/explorer_reports/leif_erikson.htm

Leif Erikson Discovers America:
http://207.61.100.164/candiscover/cantext/european/1000rafn.html

The Discovery of America:
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0197_Discovery_of_America.html

Laying the Foundation: Pre-Columbian Exploration and Colonization of the New World:
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/papers/wrhagen.html


On Vineland, NJ, upon which Pynchon may have in part based the novel:

Vineland, NJ:
http://www.vineland.org/

Statistics and Demographics of Vineland, NJ:
http://www.ersys.com/usa/34/3476070/distance.htm


On the locale of the events in the novel, sans any mention of Wanda Tinasky:

Mendocino County, CA Links:
http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/links.htm

Mendocino County Chamber of Commerce
http://www.mendocino.winecountry.com/visitorsinfo/chambersofcommercelistings.html

Map of Pynchon's "Vineland" Region:
http://www.mendocino.winecountry.com/regions/index.html



and, of course, in passing:

"Slothrop and Greta walk down to the quay [...] Several people have spotted Margherita.  She waves, and they point or wave back, and call her name.  It is a moving village: all summer it has been sailing these lowlands just as Viking ships did a thousand years ago, though passively, not marauding: seeking an escape it has not yet defined clearly"  (GR, 459).
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