Stories of adventure, intrigue and battles, both spiritual and physical, from interesting Catholic characters throughout history;
~ One by one, they began to fall ill. Thorhall, the pagan, taunted them saying, “Didn’t Old Redbeard [Thor] prove to be more help than your Christ? This was my payment for the poem I composed about Thor, my guardian, who’s seldom disappointed me.” Realizing that they had been deceived, Karlsefni and the other Catholics in the party threw the carcass of the whale over a cliff, having confidence that God, in His mercy, would provide for them.
Sure enough, their hunting and fishing began yielding an abundance of food. Seeing this, Thorhall and the few other pagan Norsemen decided to return to Scandinavia. But they would never make it as their ship was blown off course to Ireland, where they were beaten, enslaved and killed. ~