# Meadowland

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- Book: [Meadowland](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-c-holt/meadowland) ([Meadowland.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-c-holt/meadowland.md))
- Authors: [Thomas C. Holt](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-c-holt)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4811-354-5
- Published: 2009-10-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious journey to Greece, escorting the Army payroll. His only companions are a detachment of the Empire's elite Guard, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. When the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time talking with two veterans, who have a remarkable story to tell; the Viking discovery of America. As he records the story, years later, he also considers its effect on the fourth member of the party; a young Norwegian guardsman who went on to become King Harald Hardradi, who died invading England in 1066 ...