Vikings In
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The Plot
Only recently we reviewed here a book whose plot had been based on the fact that the remains of an old Viking ship had been discovered near one of the great lakes in the United States. And some years ago, the late Nevil Shute used the same plot for one of his novels.
Elizabeth Coatsworth now carries the idea a bit further in “Door to the North”, a Viking saga of the lAth century. All of which looks like a concerted effort to rob poor old Christo pher Columbus of the fame he has enjoyed for so long.
Miss Coatsworth’s characters, who finally wound up in Minne sota, had originally set off in the 1360’s to try to win the Greenland colonists, who had reverted to paganism, back to Christianity. Their further ad venture to the West is based on a legend carved on a stone and a tribe of blue-eyed, light skinned Indians.
(Door To The North. Pub
lished by World’s Work. Australian price, 18/9.)