What if?What if the descendants of the Vikings who settled Greenland and went on to reach North America around the end of the first millennium had stayed?Five hundred years later, would Christopher Columbus have arrived to the south of an eastern
seaboard dotted with centuries old settlements and towns hosting devotees to Thor and Odin?Might the Norse have gone on to build a nation as dominant as the United States of our own world?
Not exact matches
The Adriatic coastline though is
dotted with picture - postcard villages and towns hugging the
seaboard and rising up the hills behind: Ulcinj, Budva and Kotor, now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
I know that tornadoes
dot the German Rhine where no tornadoes were seen before, I know hurricanes on the Eastern
seaboard are behaving differently, I know that Crete was so dry when I saw it that I couldn't imagine olive trees growing there without irrigation, I know that our highways are a half kilometer wide and countless kilometers long, with thousands upon thousands of idling cars sitting on them, ten times a week for as long as I've been alive, and I know that sea captains don't want to traverse the Indian ocean because the almanacs are no longer reasonable guides to chart how long a given voyage from one port to the next might take.