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Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic

Norse exploration of the North Atlantic carried sailors and settlers from Scandinavia to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and briefly North America. Ship technology, navigation, family migration and the search for land drove expansion. These voyages created new societies on the edge of the known world.

It mattered because the Viking world was not only about raiding; it was also about settlement, law, farming and exploration. The North Atlantic setting gives fiction harsh weather, exile, feud, hunger, discovery and fragile communities. Novels by Frans G. Bengtsson, Tim Severin, Linnea Hartsuyker and others connect Norse seafaring to adventure and family saga.

Viking Age Scandinavia links to Bernard Cornwell's Uhtred novels through the wider Norse world, but it also has its own fiction by Frans G. Bengtsson, Giles Kristian, Linnea Hartsuyker, Tim Severin and other writers of Norse and seafaring series. These stories often follow raiders, traders, settlers, kings, shieldmaidens, explorers and families moving between Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the British Isles and the North Atlantic. A separate Scandinavian entry helps avoid treating all Viking fiction as Anglo-Saxon England only.

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Series about Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic (1 series)

New World in Order

by Griff Hosker 7 books 4.5

New World is a Viking exploration saga about Norse movement across the Atlantic. The sequence follows seafarers, settlers and raiders as they leave familiar waters for Greenland, Vinland and the edge of the known world. It is built around navigation, kinship, survival and the unstable relationship between discovery…

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30 Best Novels About Norse Exploration of the North Atlantic

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