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Preface

From someone reading from our timeline it may seem implausible that vikings would discover the mainland of America before actually discovering our timeline´s Greenland.
However one should not underestimate the power of chance. The discovery of Iceland and Greenland were by chance. The one that told Erik the red about Greenland was a settler named Snæbjörn (incidentally my name as well), and he had stumbled on it because his ship had been blown of course on his way to Iceland.
Now, it is easy to see looking from a map how you automatically hit Greenland if you miss Iceland.
I have in my hands from a journey to another timeline a manuscript of a different Erik´s saga the red in which he also by chance ends up even further than Greenland and ends up settling there.
It might not seem likely that someone could end up finding the continent of North America by getting lost at sea, but let´s not forget that in OTL that is excactly what happened.
Leif the lucky, son of Erik head of the new world from a friend that had been caught by a storm on his way to Greenland and seen another land. Bjarni Herjólfsson is now a mere footnote in the history of explorations, Leif who decided to explore the land Bjarni had seen was the one that got the statue in centre Reykjavík.
But what if this had happened sooner? In the year 960 Erik was an outlaw from Norway and from Iceland who explored Greenland for three years before he convinced enough people to fill 25 ships to follow him to Greenland. He lied to them that the grass was greener and better on the other side.
But what if he didn´t have to lie? What if he, like Bjarni Herjólfsson had been caught by the flapping wings of Weatherpale?
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