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    Vikings in America

    Vikings in America

    The theory that Vikings reached North America around 1000 AD is gaining acceptance.

    The most credible claim – that the Vikings reached North America around the year 1000 – deserves more attention. It arose in the 19th century, following the publication of C C Rafn’s Antiquitates Americanae (1837), which proposed that the place the Icelandic sagas called Vinland (meaning ‘vine land’) was located somewhere near Cape Cod in Massachusetts, or the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. (The Vinland Sagas refers to two different orally transmitted sagas about these early voyages: Erik the Red’s saga was written down shortly after 1264, and the Greenlanders’ saga was copied into a collection of different materials in 1387.)

    According to these two sagas, the Vikings encountered a group of indigenous Amerindians, whom they called Skraelings, or ‘wretched ones’. The Norse traded red woollen textiles for animal pelts. That exchange marked a turning point in world history: it is the earliest documented encounter between the peoples living on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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    They are still gather evidence that they were here before Columbus. But Columbus didn't actually discover America as much as he discovered the area known today as the Virgin Islands.
    Archeology is constantly rewriting history.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    They are still gather evidence that they were here before Columbus. But Columbus didn't actually discover America as much as he discovered the area known today as the Virgin Islands.
    Archeology is constantly rewriting history.
    Yes, there is no doubt the Vikings were here first. And other groups perhaps before them.

    But Columbus opened the Americas up to European exploitation- I mean that is a good way. It changed the world for the better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Yes, there is no doubt the Vikings were here first. And other groups perhaps before them.

    But Columbus opened the Americas up to European exploitation- I mean that is a good way. It changed the world for the better.
    If one believes what is happening on Oak Island, Europeans visited the upper area of the Americas before Columbus, but after the Vikings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    If one believes what is happening on Oak Island, Europeans visited the upper area of the Americas before Columbus, but after the Vikings.
    I wouldn't be surprised. Those were pirates right?
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