Download or read book Young Vikings written by Birger L. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUNG VIKINGS follows the adventures of two teenage Vikings as they grow up into adulthood. They learn to make weapons for hunting and fighting and in the process learn how to smelt iron from myrjerne (bogiron). They participate in a viking jaunt to Britain in their first marauding adventure, then migrate with their families to Iceland where they establish a colony. Here they marry and subsequently join a noted Viking, Leif Erikson, in his discovery and exploration of North America around 1000 A.D.