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On page 21 Asterix calls the country "a New World", a reference to the nickname 16th century discoverers gave America.This is a reference to Thanksgiving, when American families traditionally eat stuffed Thanksgiving turkey. Asterix says it tastes great, but Obelix notes that it might be better to stuff it with another type of food. Asterix and Obelix discover a turkey and decide to eat it.Unhygenix, however, prefers the scent of his own stock a preference that explains why his product is such a delicate and filthy topic. This escape is conducive to their original purpose, since Catastrofix is a fisherman and hence able to procure some fish for the magic potion. They plan a celebration, then attempt to sacrifice the "natives", much to the chagrin of the other Vikings ("Why? They haven't done anything!").īefore this can be carried out, a Gaulish prisoner called Catastrofix, who can understand both Gallic and Norse, stirs up Ødiuscomparissen's suspicion that Herendethelessen is a liar, causing a fight between the Norsemen with the assumption that Herendethelessen has simply gone to Gaul rather than to a new world. The Vikings' chief, Ødiuscomparissen, greets them and is skeptical of their stories, until he sees the Gauls. Their mutual desperation, the Gauls wanting to return home, and the Vikings' eagerness to prove their story of a new world, results in a trip back to Europe to the Vikings' homeland. The crew are anachronistic Norsemen (with names like Herendethelessen, Steptøånssen, Nøgøødreåssen, Håråldwilssen, Irmgard, Firegård, and their Great Dane, Huntingseåssen) - who managed a Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and take the Gauls, who they thought to be the local natives, to their homeland as proof that there are continents beyond Europe. Seeing a boat coming, Asterix climbs a cairn of rocks holding a torch and a book like the Statue of Liberty to attract it. They go to a small island (which the reader surmises is Liberty Island). Soon they earn the "Romans"' affection, but they decide to leave after the " centurion" chooses Obelix as his rather rubenesque daughter's fiancé. After a storm, they get lost, but despite Obelix's concerns, they do not reach the edge of the world instead, following a brief encounter with the pirates, they arrive on an island (which the reader surmises is Manhattan Island) with delicious birds that the Gauls call "gobblers" ( turkeys), bears and " Romans" with strange facial paintings ( Native Americans). Asterix and Obelix borrow a boat from Geriatrix and go fishing. Unhygienix is out of fresh fish (as always), which is carted overland in ox-drawn carts from Lutetia (Paris), and causing it to get unhealthy on the long trip, and Getafix says that he needs some for his potion. Asterix and the Great Crossing is the twenty-second volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations).