Vikings of the Pandemic: Recent Episodes
R. Stephens
A Saga about an Orkney family over a thousand years from the Viking Age and Medieval Warming Period to a 21st century Pandemic and Global Warming.
This last episode presents some of the historical material that I used to create each of the 11 episodes of this saga. The saga covers over a 1,000 years of the history of the North Atlantic.
The family amulet has been passed onto Anna Work by Robert Work. The scientists summarize their findings at Arctic Station, Greenland. A story is told.
The US Navy destroyer Hambleton is torpedoed off Orkney Island and Robert Work, the Medical Officer, is taken to the hospital in Kirkwall. He learns of the dispersal of the Work Clan after the Scottish Reformation.
Thé team identifiés thé virus causing the pandemic. The laboratory work points to a promising antidote.
Margaret of Denmark is shipwrecked off Orkney on her way to marry King James lll of Scotland. Mildred Work accompanies the Queen and her three sons to Orkney when plague hits Stirling Castle. Margaret reveals the whereabouts of the family amulet.
Henry Sinclair is made Earl of Orkney by King Hakon Vl of Norway and enlists the help of the Fortress Keeper, John Work, and the Work Clan. An account of Rognvald’s travels is found. The Earl sails to Greenland and Newfoundland.
Anna Work and her family live in St John’s Newfoundland. The scientists continue their work, examining native specimens of Greenland and Newfoundland for a possible antidote.
Newfoundland 1005. Rognvald, a member of the Wark Clan of Orkney, sails to the northern peninsula of Newfoundland (the Western lands) for wood and stays in Leif Ericsson’s camp. He is given healing plants by a native.
Thé Cathédral in Gardar is dedicated. Magnus Havardson, a member of the Work Clan of Orkney, sails to Greenland. A family amulet is opened.
Scientists gather to find a cure for a pandemic. Anna Work, a physician and biochemist, who works with the World Health Organization (WHO) is among them.