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A variety of information
gleaned from surfing the Internet
Greenland and the Viking Sagas and how they relate to
Nevil Shute's novel "An Old Captivity"
The action of this novel mainly takes place around the Viking settlement of Brattalid on Greenland
Before I started surfing I felt that it was likely that the settlement name of Brattalid that Nevil Shute used might well be fictional. But no it existed
- maps
- the Viking sagas, Brattali(h)d and Vinland
and from the Nevil Shute Foundation website:-
- the Cosmos Seaplane