{"product_id":"2940015493221","title":"THE VINLAND CHAMPIONS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                     PAGE\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE                                                               ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FIRST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BROOD OF THE WIND-RAVEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. CONCERNING ALREK OF THE VIKING CAMPS                                 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. IN WHICH THE BOYS OF THE WIND-RAVEN CONSIDER THE CHANCES\u003cbr\u003eOF FINDING A SKRAELLING                                                12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. RELATING HOW ONE WAS FOUND ON THE CAPE OF THE CROSSES             21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. WHEREIN THE SWORD-BEARER IS FURTHER REMINDED THAT HE HAS\u003cbr\u003eBROKEN THE LAW                                                         33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. THROUGH WHICH THE STORM-GIANT BLUSTERS                              42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. ABOUT THE STRANGE FIND ON KEEL CAPE                                52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. CONCERNING THORFINN KARLSEFNE, THE LAWMAN                         66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART SECOND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALREK'S CHAMPIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. AT THE HALL OF THE VINLAND CHAMPIONS                             83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX. ABOUT THE HUNTSMAN AND THE BOY WHO WAS DROWNED                     94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX. THROUGH WHICH THE CHAMPIONS CHASE VINLAND ELK                      108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXI. TELLING HOW TRADE WITH THE SKRAELLINGS CAME TO A MYSTERIOUS END   117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXII. IN WHICH THE CHAMPIONS FEEL THEIR IMPORTANCE                     134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII. GIVING THE REASON WHY THE SKRAELLINGS FLED                      144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIV. SHOWING HOW DISGRACE CAME UPON ALREK THE CHIEF                   149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THIRD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HUNTSMAN'S PREY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXV. ABOUT THE FIRE-THAT-RUNS-ON-THE-WAVES                             163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVI. PROVING THAT ALREK'S EMPTY HANDS WERE FULL OF POWER              176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVII. SHOWING HOW THE CHAMPIONS BROKE A THREAD IN THE HUNTSMAN'S NET  188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. CONCERNING A GRIM BARGAIN BETWEEN THE LAWMAN AND ALREK         202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIX. RELATING THE ADVENTURE WITH THE MEN OF THE FOREST                213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXX. SHOWING HOW THE HUNTSMAN BAGGED HIS GAME                          226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXI. IN WHICH ALREK SWORD-BEARER FACES DEATH                          239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEPILOGUE                                                              253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                              FACING PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis eyes showed fire, while his voice was deep             _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeither sound nor motion was on his blue lips                          51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe ladled curds from her bowl into the gaping mouth                  124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith no other weapon than his bare brown hands                        182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt happened first in the history of the New World lands that the\u003cbr\u003eNorthman Biorn Herjulfsson saw them when he had lost his way in\u003cbr\u003ejourneying to Greenland. But he lacked the adventuresomeness to go\u003cbr\u003eashore and explore them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Leif the Lucky, son of Eric the Red of Greenland, heard of the\u003cbr\u003eomission and set out to remedy it. He rediscovered the lands and went\u003cbr\u003eupon them and named them, after which he built booths at a place he\u003cbr\u003ecalled Vinland and passed a winter there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNext, Leif's brother Thorwald Ericsson came over the ocean; but his luck\u003cbr\u003ewas less for he was shipwrecked on one cape and killed on another, and\u003cbr\u003ehis men returned disheartened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was followed by the third brother, Thorstein; but this expedition had\u003cbr\u003eno success whatever for they spent a whole summer in wandering in a\u003cbr\u003ecircle that landed them finally upon the west coast of Greenland\u003cbr\u003eitself. And here Thorstein died of a plague, leaving his young wife\u003cbr\u003eGudrid to return to the hospitality of Leif at Brattahlid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe explorer who came next and who did the most was Thorfinn Karlsefne\u003cbr\u003eof Iceland. While he was visiting at Brattahlid he married Gudrid, the\u003cbr\u003ewidow of Thorstein, and she--together with others--talked to him so much\u003cbr\u003eabout the new lands that he resolved upon settling them. In the spring\u003cbr\u003eof 1007 he set out from Greenland with three ships heavily laden and\u003cbr\u003ecame to Vinland and wakened the sleeping camp to new life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis story begins on an autumn day in the second year of Karlsefne's\u003cbr\u003esettlement, and on board the little ship called the Wind-Raven which he\u003cbr\u003ehad sent out at the beginning of summer to explore the eastern coast.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080771649776,"sku":"2940015493221","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015493221","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}