{"product_id":"a-pagan-promised-land-paperback","title":"A Pagan Promised Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven Kent Olson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the unwritten tale behind a mysterious marker stone found in Minnesota - about an epic and desperate last Nordic voyage to a rumored fertile land far to the west beyond Greenland. This story is about impatient young men eager to leave the doomed Norse peninsula - just as nation building, the Roman church, and the black plague closed in around them. The participants include the Norse grandson of a seafaring discoverer-explorer, a dissident Swedish Cistercian Priest disillusioned by Church corruption, and a Sami girl who recognized that the free-roaming nomadic days of her own people would soon be doomed as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Kent Olson Born (1946) and raised on a dairy farm in northern Wisconsin. I am fourth generation Norwegian on my mother's side, second generation on my father's. When I was still in grade school my school teacher mother told me of the Kensington stone and showed me on a map how this could have happened. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with a history degree, but made my living remodeling houses. I did not start writing seriously until I retired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 412\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42109281206407,"sku":"9781717340245","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/30f2a59ac32e32826ca23f0d04d41389.webp?v=1732473385","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/a-pagan-promised-land-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}