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'What if?

'What if the descendants of the Vikings who settled Greenland and went on to reach North America around the end of the first millennium had stayed?

'Five hundred years later, would Christopher Columbus have arrived to the south of an eastern seaboard dotted with centuries old settlements and towns hosting devotees to Thor and Odin?

'Might the Norse have gone on to build a nation as dominant as the United States of our own world?

'A thousand years 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.' (Publication summary)

'Over a thousand years ago the Norse reached the Americas, but never stayed.

'What if they had?

'Following on from The United States Of Vinland: The Landing comes Red Winter.

'Eskil's dream of settling the newly discovered lands of the west to honour the Gods is under way. Godsland and Lakeland are no longer alone, as new villages grow and prosper in a world of fjords, valleys, forests and mountains, all of it claimed in the name of Odin.

'For over twenty years factional rivalries have remained, but the Hall of Wolves and the Hall of Ravens must face a challenge that comes heralded by crying war horns and a horizon stained with smoke.

'Can the young settlements survive the challenge?

'But this is not the only trial the Norse of Markland will face. Back across the sea in their peoples ancient homelands there are those who are jealous of the prosperity they see in the west.

'War is coming to Markland.' (Publication summary)

'One Thousand years ago Norse explorers reached North America during the Viking Age.

'What if they had stayed?

'Join us in this unique alternate history as we begin rewriting one thousand years of history with the Markland Settlement Trilogy!' (Publication summary)