A’Viking West · The First Shore

Begin at the Edge of the Known World.

Two young men stand on opposite sides of a first encounter. One has crossed an ocean seeking his place in the sagas. The other watches unfamiliar sails enter a world that is already home.

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Official cover of A’Viking West: The First Shore by Ted Malone

Before you cross the water

Two Voices.
One Shore.

A’Viking West: The First Shore unfolds through two first-person perspectives. Einar arrives from Greenland with a Norse expedition. Actaudin belongs to the community already living along the coast. Each sees the same encounter through a different inheritance of family, courage, and responsibility.

Approved portraits of Einar Tryggvason and Actaudin facing the first shore from their two worlds — Einar · The voyage west
He expects courage to look like strength, recognition, and a place among warriors.
Actaudin · The world already here
He must weigh curiosity against the obligations that bind him to family and community.

Map showing the novel’s approximate fictional outward voyage from Greenland to the first shore — From Greenland, through the Strait of Belle Isle, and toward an unfamiliar southern gulf.

The voyage west

An Ocean Crossed.
A Boundary Changed.

The Norse know how to cross the North Atlantic. What they cannot know is what their arrival will mean—to themselves, or to those who see their sails appear beyond the trees.

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