This essay considers how US regionalist writer Sarah Orne Jewett represented New England’s relationship to the Viking-Norman legacy in three works : The Story of the Normans (1887), “The King of Folly Island” (1888), and The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). In so doing, this essay advocates for a scaling up of how we read regionalism especially along temporal, geographical, socio-sexual, and geopolitical lines. Jewett’s consistent linking of New Englanders, especially white unmarried women and confirmed bachelors, to medieval Vikings and Normans, helped consolidate the notion of kinship between New England, Great Britain, France, and Scandinavia in an age of empire. Jewett’s writings, in fashioning a space for unmarried, cosmopolitan white people in an imagined Anglo-European bloc, performed complex transhistorical, transatlantic racialized work.