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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)