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Free Download Iral Clair Nelson, "Viking's Last Voyage: A search for the Lost Greenland Colony"
English |ASIN : B01DXDWEEK | 2016 | pages | AZW, EPUB | 349 KB + 264 KB
Viking's Last Voyage is about a Scandinavian expedition that was sent out from Norway in the 14th century in an attempt to find "The Lost Greenland Colony," whose inhabitants had disappeared from the western Colony of Greenland. After searching without success for several years along the eastern coast of North America the expedition commenced to search farther inland. That search ultimately took the expedition into Hudson Bay, up the Nelson River, the Red River of the North, and the Buffalo River in Minnesota. As the search for the Colony proceeded into the interior of America there was considerable interaction with Native Americans. Initially the Ojibwe were hostile and accounted for the loss of 16 of the 20 who traveled inland. Finally, with the aid of an Ojibwe maiden who was attracted to the expedition's scribe and chart maker, the survivors reached the Dakotas and Mandans who were friendly, and with whom they found with bittersweet success the Lost Greenland Colony. Although Viking's Last Voyage is fiction, it suggests a plausible "could have been" basis for a 14th-century Scandinavian engraving the message on the Kensington Runestone that was brought to light near Kensington, Minnesota in 1898.