OnlyOneUweRosler
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Short video about how the Vikings bear Columbus by nearly 500 years to be the first Europeans in the Americas.
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The Vikings in America
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Tuearts right boot
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Short video about how the Vikings bear Columbus by nearly 500 years to be the first Europeans in the Americas.
Wasn't he the guitarist with Rush.
NorthamptonBlue
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Is it a hint? Is Haaland on the way after all?
BimboBob
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This is all very interesting but the sagas weren't written down until at least 200 years after the events. Plus they are fanciful at best.
Still, Vikings were in North America way before Columbus and the site at L'Anse Aux Meadows confirms this. It's also thought that they might have been even further inland as they think The Meadows was a ship repair base.
No mention of the Vinland map though. This was a map that was discovered in 1957, three years before The Meadows was found. This map has been proved fake, then not, then fake, then not over the years and shows a site in America from the 11th century.
It also shows the site was used for generations rather than the sagas which say a few decades at most.
Still...it's enough for the Americans the get their knickers in a twist especially around the second week of October.
Still, Vikings were in North America way before Columbus and the site at L'Anse Aux Meadows confirms this. It's also thought that they might have been even further inland as they think The Meadows was a ship repair base.
No mention of the Vinland map though. This was a map that was discovered in 1957, three years before The Meadows was found. This map has been proved fake, then not, then fake, then not over the years and shows a site in America from the 11th century.
It also shows the site was used for generations rather than the sagas which say a few decades at most.
Still...it's enough for the Americans the get their knickers in a twist especially around the second week of October.
Barcon
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The Vikings in Canada.
quiet_riot
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Looking out a dirty old Longboat,
Down below the wake from our oars goes rushing by.
Down below the wake from our oars goes rushing by.
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blueinsa
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All Swedes should apologise and think about restitutions.
Jazzman
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They should per definition. Leif Eriksson was of Norwegian origin though. The most Vikings came from Denmark and Norway.All Swedes should apologise and think about restitutions.
bluethrunthru
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Disappointed by this - not as good as the first single - Kids in America