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|author=Jackie French
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|pages=282
|publisher=Harper Collins Children's Books
|date=3 Jan January 2007
|isbn=978-0007216598
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Based on the Viking Groenlendinga Saga and Eirik's Saga, ''Slave Girl'' is told through the eyes of Hekja, an island girl taken captive in a Viking raid and transported first to Greenland and subsequently to Vinland. We like to think that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, but in reality Norsemen had explored the coast of that continent over four centuries before him. They called it Vinland.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I was soooo into Vikings as a teenager - my father had a book of Viking myths and I read it about 100 times. They have a bit of a bad reputation here though, don't they? My DH used to insinuate a Viking heritage to me as a covert insult, but I always took it as a compliment.
I think Columbus gets all the credit because the Vikings eventually lost connection with Vinland and it went un-discovered so to speak.
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|name=Jill
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|comment= Well, we love King Arthur to the exclusion of all else. I like him too though! I think a lot of British people prefer to see their roots as Celtic rather than Norse. A shame, because the mythological canon is incredibly alive and vital.
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