The
Land of Ice
by John F. Doran mhm
A thousand years ago, Loki, a Norwegian Viking, set out to discover Iceland. His secret weapons were three ravens, two logs (cedar I think) and two Irish slaves. When he felt he was nearing land he released a raven. It couldn’t believe its luck and headed east, back to Norway! Raven no. 2, had a failure of nerve and refused to fly. Raven no. 3, having read the contract, headed west towards Iceland. The logs? They were thrown overboard! Where they were to be washed ashore would be the settlement. The logs disappeared into the currents of the Atlantic…….. Loki put ashore, dispatching the two slaves with two horses to find the logs, somewhere on that cold and lonely coast. They reappeared a year later and led the Vikings to the logs at a place they named “Reykjavik”. What a film that year could make!
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