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In the year 1002, after sighting mist-shrouded shores west of Greenland, I steered the Snorri-built knarr into a fjord where wild grapes grew thick along the banks, Vinland, as we named it for that bounty. But what mattered more than the land was the reckoning it forced: our longships carried iron tools and wool cloth, but also arrogance, and when the Skrælings’ arrows flew at Leifsbúðir, I ordered retreat not from fear, but from calculation. Trade demanded reciprocity, not conquest; every barter with the Beothuk taught me that trust was forged in measured gestures, a bronze brooch for smoked eel, a carved walrus tusk for knowledge of tidal currents. My maps weren’t drawn on vellum alone, but in memory: wind shifts off the Grand Banks, the taste of salt-slicked pine resin used to caulk seams, the weight of a cargo hold balanced just so for crossing the Labrador Current. Exploration, to me, was less about claiming and more about listening, to waves, to smoke signals, to the silence between spoken words.
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- “What did the Skrælings call your settlement, and how did you learn it?”
- “How did you repair your ship’s hull after hitting submerged rocks near Helluland?”
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- “Did you ever return to Vinland after your first voyage — and why or why not?”