Dark landscape ambient album from Northumbria:
https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/vinland
"The journey was long and hard, you lost good men sailing across the never ending sea, but now you stand on foreign land. The father of gods watches o…
Dark landscape ambient album from Northumbria:
https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/vinland
"The journey was long and hard, you lost good men sailing across the never ending sea, but now you stand on foreign land. The father of gods watches over you as his ravens circle the funeral pyre to bring his warriors home.
The rocks here emanate a low hum, the silent wind carries the scent of honey and at nightly camp bestial cries echo between the mountains. Your men speak in hushed voices as the dark creeps close, they mutter about this being the territory of new gods. This dreamy land is getting to your people, some men wake screaming in the blackest hour from visions delivered by the dark below. But for you this expedition is one of enlightenment, the fresh rivers fill your mouth with the light of Yggdrasil, forests carry whispers from the mead halls beyond and as such have you convinced that this is the pathway between the worlds of gods and men."
Vinland ("land of grapes") was the name given by Leif Eriksson to one of the lands first witnessed by Bjarni Herjolfsson and visited by Viking expeditions.
The place is now believed to be Newfoundland and the lands surrounding the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders are the two main literary sources of information for the Norse exploration of North America. They relate the colonization of Greenland by Erik the Red and his followers, and describe several expeditions further west led by Erik's children and Þorfinnr "Karlsefni" Þórðarson.
The saga is preserved in the Flateyjarbók manuscript and is believed to have been first written down sometime in the 13th century regarding events between around 970 to 1030.
Archeological evidence of a small Norse compound has been unearthed at L'Anse aux Meadows, corroborating the stories.
https://www.sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en
https://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/utgafa/greenlanders.html
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/lanse-aux-meadows-0010742
Tracklist:
0:00:00 Where The Water Meets The Sky
0:09:36 New Lands, New Gods
0:15:07 Still Valley I
0:23:23 Frozen Lake
0:28:43 The Nixe
0:38:03 The Wìndjigò
0:43:27 Overwintering
0:55:11 Borderlands
1:00:19 Vinland
1:12:51 Still Valley II
Image:
https://frontier-canada.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/newfoundland-twilingate-crowhead-iceberg1920x1080.jpg
