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Hmm... I wonder if there are any traces of European gene variants in the indigenous population of that area.
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Ping to the Swedish Ping List.Baccalieu ~ an island listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador ~ and although that is usually linked to a pan Souvr’n European term referencing cod fish, that’s also one of the names JOHN CABOT used ~ there are at least a dozen or more spellings of his surname ~ some quite different. He was brought up in Nawthan’ Italy but sailed around with whoever would hire him. He’s a contemporary of Christopher Columbus, and his relatives the sea going Breton/Spanish sailers ~ the Carvajal’s. This part of Canada has all the early dates ~ earlier than MEXICO ~ and looking up one of those islands I found there’s a pre-columbian European map referring to this island!
But what we really want to know is who left the treasure on Oak Island, and how do we get it the heck outta there....
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If the Vikings play the Redskins in 2013, just think of the marketing opportunity for the NFL!
The Vikings were not only fearless warriors, but fearless navigators as well. Their influence spread through Europe, nearly conquered England and stretched through Russia down to Constantinople where a detachment of Nordics was the palace “Varangian Guard” of the Byzantine Emperor. An Italian classics professor, Dr. Felice Vinci, has written a well researched book finding evidence that the Baltic Vikings were also the players in the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, later driven to the Mediterranean by global changes in weather patterns, where they became first adversaries and then allies of ancient Egypt as the enigmatic “People of the Sea” and subsequently colonized the Aegean Sea to become the forebears of Helenic civilization. His book “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales” is a game changer and well worth the effort.
“L’Anse aux Meadows was founded nearly 1000 years ago and was the only Norse settlement in the New World. “
That we KNOW of.
The Vinland Saga tells of grape vines found on one of their trips. And grape vines don;t grow in Newfoundland - only much further south.