Colin Taber
Short Tales From Norse America
Continue the adventure!
What if?
What if the Norse who settled Greenland and went on to reach North America around the end of the first millennium had stayed?
If they had enjoyed a five hundred year head start on Columbus, would the Santa Maria have arrived in 1492 to the south of an eastern seaboard dotted with centuries old settlements and towns hosting devotees to Odin and Thor?
Would their descendants have gone on to found a nation as dominant as the United States of our own world? A millennium after reaching Greenland, Vinland and Markland, would we still have had two world wars? What might the world look like? Where might the political and religious divides be drawn?
This is The New World.
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You've read the novels, but have you read the short stories?
There are currently three USV short stories and one novella (Hunted), with more short stories to come. If you are looking for more viking action in Norse America, don't forget these!