We have been invited to take part in the Budd Lake Musikfest 96 USA on May 25 and 26, the annual Harborfest in Norfolk, Virginia on June 7-9, Midsommers in Central Park, NYC, June 21, the Welcome America lighted boat parade in Philadelphia on July 7 at Penn s Landing, the Maine Schooner Days on the 4th of July weekend in Rockland, Maine, the Scandinavian Fest at Waterloo, New Jersey on Labor Day weekend, and others. We cannot attend all of these events, but watch your local papers and stop and see us if we are in your area. The host country for this year will be Denmark, with Mogens Hempel and Ove Krebs heading up planning for the ceremonies. Sponsors will have an oar permanently engraved with the donor s name, along with that of the maker. Various aspects of Viking culture, trade, art, technology, and settlements have been the subjects of recent publications and help fill out knowledge about the Viking Age.
Most new books are factual accounts based on research in archeology, literature, and history.
The author, in an afterword, explains that the story was suggested to him by a visit to the Heavener Runestone, in Heavener, Oklahoma. Coldsmith became convinced that unlike others, the Heavener stone is authentic. In the story a party of Vikings in two longships arrives at L Anse Aux Meadows in the year Leif Ericson is at the settlement. After a time, the two ships proceed up the St. Lawrence river, but meet with disaster at the hands of the Skraelings . For several years, the tribe migrates further west to the Mississippi.