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Nkyea, brodirs!

We all know of the great Viking realms of the Middle Ages; the Danelaw, the Kievan Rus, Normandy, the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. While they mixed with and largely assimilated into their subjects' native cultures, they were unique Viking creations, and they created forever changed the face of Europe forever.

But what if they had founded states far beyond Europe and the Mediterranean? I'm not talking about coming across an uninhabited, isolated piece of land like Iceland, or ventures like the doomed American colonies, but a place with a sophisticated and settled culture that was tied into the rest of the world through trade and cultural contacts. A land which in many ways is quite different from that of Scandinavia, but also shares surprising similarities.

This will be an alternate timeline where a Viking chieftain and his followers are stranded off the coast of modern-day Ghana, and come to establish their own kingdom which mixes Norse and African culture. This is:

The Land of the Ebony Valkyries







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