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BY SHARON WHITLEY LARSEN
SHADES OF GREENLAND

I've been lucky to stop in Iceland—a travel “hot
“Did you see the Northern Lights?” spot”--and the Shetland Islands (which I love) twice
That's the first thing several friends asked when I in 2018 on cruises. But I had no idea what to expect
returned from a transatlantic Viking cruise--“In the in Greenland—the “fly-over” country inhabited since
Wake of the Vikings”--from Bergen, Norway, to Mon- Prehistoric times—some 4,300 years. How many
treal, with stops in the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, times—flying across the Pond--I've gazed from an
Iceland, Greenland, and eastern Canadian towns of airline window to the mass of snow and ice below me,
L'Anse Aux Meadows, Saguenay, and Quebec City. (For wondering who in the world lived there!
the record—alas, I didn't see the Northern Lights. Next I soon found out!
time!)

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