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Asterix and the Great Crossing (French: La Grande traversee) is the twenty-second volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). Unhygienix is out of fresh fish (as always), which is "shipped" overland in ox-drawn carts from Lutetia (Paris), and Getafix says that he needs some for his magic potion. Asterix and Obelix borrow a boat from Geriatrix and go fishing. After a storm, they get lost, but despite Obelix's concerns, they do not reach the edge of the world. Instead, they arrive on an island (North America) with delicious birds the Gauls call "gobblers" (turkeys), bears and "Romans" with strange facial paintings (Indians).

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rdfs:comment	Asterix and the Great Crossing (French: La Grande traversee) is the twenty-second volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). Unhygienix is out of fresh fish (as always), which is "shipped" overland in ox-drawn carts from Lutetia (Paris), and Getafix says that he needs some for his magic potion. Asterix and Obelix borrow a boat from Geriatrix and go fishing. After a storm, they get lost, but despite Obelix's concerns, they do not reach the edge of the world. Instead, they arrive on an island (North America) with delicious birds the Gauls call "gobblers" (turkeys), bears and "Romans" with strange facial paintings (Indians).
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abstract	Asterix and the Great Crossing (French: La Grande traversee) is the twenty-second volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). Unhygienix is out of fresh fish (as always), which is "shipped" overland in ox-drawn carts from Lutetia (Paris), and Getafix says that he needs some for his magic potion. Asterix and Obelix borrow a boat from Geriatrix and go fishing. After a storm, they get lost, but despite Obelix's concerns, they do not reach the edge of the world. Instead, they arrive on an island (North America) with delicious birds the Gauls call "gobblers" (turkeys), bears and "Romans" with strange facial paintings (Indians). Soon they earn the "Romans"' affection, but they decide to leave after the "centurion" chooses Obelix as his rather rubenesque daughter's fiancé. They go to a small island. Seeing a boat coming, Asterix climbs a cairn of rocks holding a torch and a book to attract it. The crew are anachronistic vikings (with names like Herendethelessen, Steptøånssen, Nøgøødreåssen, Håråldwilssen, Irmgard, Firegård and their Huntingseåssen) - who managed a Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and take the Gauls, whom they thought to be the local natives, to their homeland as proof that there are continents beyond Europe. 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 vikings' chief, Ødiuscomparissen, greets them and was skeptical of their stories, until he saw the Gauls. They plan a celebration, then attempt to sacrifice the "natives" (much to the chagrin of the other vikings ("Why? They haven't done anything!")). Before 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 Vikings. Meanwhile, the Gauls escape. This escape is conducive to their original purpose, since Catastrofix is a fisherman and hence able to procure some fish for the magic potion. Unhygenix, however, prefers the scent of his own stock; a preference that explains why his product is such a delicate and filthy topic.

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