A Pagan Promised Land |
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| Author:
| Olson, Steven |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7173-4024-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2018 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.98 |
Book Description:
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This is the unwritten tale behind a mysterious marker stone found in Minnesota - about an epic and desperate last Nordic voyage to a rumored fertile land far to the west beyond Greenland. This story is about impatient young men eager to leave the doomed Norse peninsula - just as nation building, the Roman church, and the black plague closed in around them. The participants include the Norse grandson of a seafaring discoverer-explorer, a dissident Swedish Cistercian Priest disillusioned...
More DescriptionThis is the unwritten tale behind a mysterious marker stone found in Minnesota - about an epic and desperate last Nordic voyage to a rumored fertile land far to the west beyond Greenland. This story is about impatient young men eager to leave the doomed Norse peninsula - just as nation building, the Roman church, and the black plague closed in around them. The participants include the Norse grandson of a seafaring discoverer-explorer, a dissident Swedish Cistercian Priest disillusioned by Church corruption, and a Sami girl who recognized that the free-roaming nomadic days of her own people would soon be doomed as well.