Cod Almighty

Cod Almighty! Let’s hear tales of ventures, adventures, mysteries and yarns from the 500-year-old trans-Atlantic cod trade between Newfoundland and England’s southwestern counties. “It is the fish that bring them first. / Cod in such numbers as to seem endless. / Cod to fill the nets and bellies / of hungry Europeans / with the … Read more

Norse settlement in Newfoundland

By Ralph Blumenthal, The New York Times | April 1, 2016 On a remote point in Newfoundland, satellite technology detects evidence of a second Norse settlement in the Americas. A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence … Read more