GREENLANDEDR GHOSTS IN AMERICA: 3/4: American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:58.2 | slash G.O. I'm John Batchel with Martin Wittick. His new book is American Vikings, How the North Sailed |
| 1:04.5 | into the Lands and Imaginations of America. The books to depend upon are Eric the Red Saga |
| 1:10.7 | in the 13th century and Saga of Greenlanders in the 14th century. |
| 1:14.6 | And boy, are they dramatic. |
| 1:16.3 | Martin, this is wonderful to speak of the drama presented. |
| 1:21.5 | Men and women, a Lady Macbeth figure, you've mentioned, her Fratus, daughter of Eric the Red. |
| 1:27.4 | And then the men come and go, but |
| 1:29.9 | there are not enough women for them, more tension. They are looking, however, always for new lands. |
| 1:37.2 | They're looking for timber that goes back to Greenland because timber's in short supply in |
| 1:42.1 | Greenland. And we come to a place that has been identified over these last two centuries as a possible |
| 1:49.5 | outpost, a base for Eric, for Leif Erickson and his crew. |
| 1:56.6 | Lons Almeadow. |
| 1:57.8 | Where is that, Martin? |
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