Melbourne Christopher and St. John Barrett. Lions of the Sea . 2006

Lions of the Sea is a novel written by Melbourne Christopher and published in 2006. St. John Barrett is noted as the collaborative author. The novel tells about the voyage of a Swedish landowner named Birger Ulfsson to find lost colonists for the King of Sweden. Ulfsson is given a map of the new world of Vinland by his mother and starts on his voyage. He and his men do not find the colonists in Vinland, Greenland or Nova Scotia so they continue south through Lake Winnipeg and the Red River. While exploring the surrounding area, Pall Knutsson, one of his men revolts and tries to kill Ulfsson but the plan backfires, and Knutsson and ten other men are killed by a local tribe. The story of this massacre is told on the Kensington Runestone. On Ulfsson’s trip home he finds the lost colonists and is named Chancellor of the Realm for King Haakon of Sweden.