You know of course the Vikings settled in Newfoundland around 999AD ! I've spent many hours exploring this Viking UNESCO World Heritage site way up the Northern peninsula of Newfoundland, and it is breathtaking. The remnants of the old sod huts are still there next to the replica ones they have built to Viking precision. Of course the land, beach and hills have never changed for a 1000 years.
When you leave the interpretation centre and walk down to the settlement and water, you really do enter an earlier milleninum. To think Leif, Eriik's son of course, lived on our lisand of Newfoundland long before John Cabot discovered it in 1497! Thought provoking, isn't it?
Although my Sharecropper Trio's second cd is appropriately named This New Founde Lande, the song I penned right there next to these Viking sod huts is named Viking Winds.
It's now a song captured on video by my good friend, Lynda Bruton, who first met our trio when we played aboard her visiting cruise ship to Newfoundland. Please have a look at her marvelous photography and her professional video, and enjoy my original song, Viking Winds. May the Vikings enter your dreams tonight!
(scroll down this page of songs till you see it):
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