This is Dr. Miklos Vassanyi’s presentation for the event The earliest Reports of Encounters with the Inuit in the Old Icelandic Sagas, Medieval Norwegian and North-European Chronicles and Greenland Deeds. Dr Miklos Vassanyi holds a PhD in Philosophy (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and a PhD in History (ELTE University of Budapest). He is Associate Professor at Karoli University Budapest, Department of General Humanities, currently working as a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the University of Minnesota‒Twin Cities, Center for Austrian Studies. In Budapest, he teaches on the MA program of Karoli University in Religious Studies. His areas of research include Inuit history and Inuit religious phenomena with a concentration on shamanism. He coedited Indigenous Perspectives of North America (Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2014) and has published a number of articles on Native American anthropology. This event is conducted through the Fulbright Scholar Program’s Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF). It sponsored with the UAA Alaska Native Studies Department. (Note: the audio podcast is also posted in iTunes.)