This story takes a very valid viewpoint, in that it occurs in a reasonable timespan and contains realistic plot elements. I was looking for a story more oriented to the Norse as explorers as a group, rather than as stranded individual stragglers who became enmeshed in the local population. It also seems written more for a younger naive reader who might be more receptive to simplistic religious intertwinings. The cons: it is overly long, with 300 pages of extra micro detail. It seems likely they were killed off by the natives, but no one really knows.Īs a historically researched story for parts of North American People at around 1100 AD., this may be unparalleled. What if they had stayed? Anyway this book is about Vikings that makes their way into the continent. Since there have been settlements found in Canada, it seems almost a surety that they travelled up and down the Atlantic coast.Ī lost piece of history. Certainly they could have navigated the Great Lakes, anywhere along the Mississipi, the Missouri, the Ohio, etc. The Vikings were here, and given the North American river system could have brought their longships within two days walk of the Oklahoma site. The Mandan Indians when encountered by Lewis and Clark 800 years later had blue eyes and permanent stone settlements built in the style of medieval Europe.Įach leg of the trip from Norway to Iceland, to Greenland, to Canada was easily within their ability. There are others that have been found as far from the Atlantic Coast as Minnesota.
Fact: There's a stone inscribed with Viking runes, dated to 1000 AD. I can't get enough of speculation on this subject.
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