Susan Nicol's Blog: Canadian Sagas, page 5

Suspended Beliefs

This is the interior of a church in the Norstead Viking Village at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. A wooden cross is on its roof, signifying that Leif Eiriksson who founded a camp in the area around 1000 AD had convert...

Viking Bling

This Viking re-enactor at Norstead Village, Newfoundland, is sporting some serious bling. At the top of the photo, you can see a silver Valknut, or Odin's knot, disappearing under his shirt. Odin's knot signified the hea...

Viking Landmarks

Oxford Living Dictionaries define the word "landmark" as: An object or feature of a landscape...that is easily seen and recognized from a distance, especially one that enables someone to establish their location."

A Breed Apart

Here are a couple of Newfoundlanders I had the pleasure to meet during a visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site at L'Anse aux Meadows. That is the actual name of the breed: Newfoundland Dog.

The Snorri

On June 28, 1998, eight men set out from Nuuk, Greenland, in this replica Viking knarr ship, The Snorri. Using only the sun and stars to navigate, they successfully replicated Leif Eiriksson's 1,800-mile journey by landi...

Sagas & Sea Smoke has Launched

I just received word that my first novel, Sagas & Sea Smoke��, has been published. Right now, this contemporary tale of historical adventure is available in ebook, hardcover and paperback formats from the FriesenPress onl...

Meet the Big Guy

Over one thousand years ago, this guy jumped out of a wooden ship--possibly at this very spot--and decided to build a base camp. (Okay, he was big, but not THIS big. August Werner's statue of Leif Eiriksson is ten feet t...

Voyage of Discovery

Like many of my fellow students in the Creative Communications course at Winnipeg's Red River College, I planned to learn the broadcast, journalism, advertising and public relations trades just so I could make a living w...