A Viking in Vogue
It’s a good deed that Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, could appreciate. The Viking Ship duplicate that sailed from Norway to the U.S. in 1893 to prove that Erikson and his Vikings could have reached North American shores before Columbus is finally being fixed up. The vessel had been part of the Columbian Exposition that year, the same mega-event that Larson used as a backdrop for his bestseller.
The ship’s post-exhibition life was largely spent on land in a Chicago park until a local group offered to take and fix it up.
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