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Article: On our route, patterns of history.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 22, 2000
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Reykjavik, Iceland - This summer, a hardy crew of Scandinavians will sail a very small ship from the harbor here out across the freezing, wind-swept waters of the North Atlantic to the west and south along the coast of the United Staes. In a replica of Leif Ericson's boat, a graceful wooden vessel totally open to the elements, they will mimic the historic trip he made 1,000 years ago - a search for new lands and new possibilities.
All the world's been on the move. Or so it seems as we fly our way north and then west from the continent that holds the "cradle of civilization" to the New World of North America.
"This whole trip is a study in migration," ...