Blood of the North

<p>What if the Vikings successfully colonized North America in the 11th century? In this alternate timeline Leif Erikson's Vinland settlements thrive evolving into a Norse-American kingdom that repels later European explorers and absorbs indigenous technologies like advanced agriculture and birchbark canoes. By the 15th century these Vinlanders sail hybrid longships across the Atlantic trading furs and iron with a fragmented Europe still reeling from the Crusades. But as the Renaissance dawns a ruthless Vinland chieftain uncovers ancient runes promising godlike power igniting a civil war between pagan traditionalists and Christian converts. </p>