resources
left,’ he said. ‘We won’t last long unless we hunt. Shoot several
animals.’
Thoric and Niels hunted, but nothing felt natural. The trees and sounds
were different. Even the animals were different. But the men were hungry.
They killed and ate the unknown animals anyway. The meat was different,
but it was not bad.
Chief Eskol spoke to the men that night. ‘We’ve got food now. And we
are thankful for that,’ he told them. ‘But now we need to explore. We must
see what is beyond the beach. We need to find out if we can farm here. If
we can raise food here, more Vikings will come.’
One of the men asked, ‘How do we know where we are? Some men think
the storm took us off course.’
Chief Eskol didn’t speak for several minutes. In the end, he said nothing.
He
ignored the question and said, ‘We must explore this place. We’ll start
tomorrow at
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