Posted on 04/23/2019 8:02:03 AM PDT by rdl6989
An iron working hearthstone was discovered on Newfoundland, hundreds of miles from the only noted Viking location to date.
Another thousand-year-old Viking colony might have been found on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. The finding of the old Viking location on the Canadian coast could drastically change the story of the exploration of North America by the Europeans prior to Christopher Columbus.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology-world.com ...
Ping.
Hmmmm. Any indication of Christian slaves present? I’d love to sue Sweden/Norway/Finland for some reparations. :-)
Since when is Newfoundland an island ?
However many finds they make, in the end the combination of distance, the insufficiency of Iceland and Greenland as staging grounds, and the limited attractiveness of the North-Eastern parts of Canada to Scandanavians (the Normans for some reason tended to conquer areas that were warmer and more fertile than the places they came from) resulted in no enduring presence.
Several centuries of English rule probably entirely obliterated, and certainly effectively erased, the native population, and with it, much hope of finding living genetic or cultural residue.
Actually, it was found thousands of miles from the Kensington Runestone site in Minnesota ;^).
I have a feeling that we will eventually find that the Norse had gone further inland than we think. The St Lawrence would have been a good place to start. How far did they go? Who knows? Did they inter marry with the natives as they went westward? Those native long houses and stockades seem awful familiar.
Since when is it a continent?
Or are you Canadian/Newfie enough to insist that it is simply a single rock?
Never mind, I get it. Newfoundland and Labrador have teamed up - Newfoundland is the island and Labrador is the mainland.
< slaps head >
No, I just relied too much on the Google Map which labels the mainland as “Newfoundland and Labrador” and doesn’t label the island at all.
No offense intended.
Probably millions of years, but at least since the last Glaciation.
Newfoundland stayed afloat with all the planes after 9/11
This article cries out for a map. Fortunately, one is easily obtained. Point Rosee is at the Southwest end of Newfoundland while L’Anse aux Meadows is found at the Northwest end. This suggests that the Vikings were unlikely to have stopped at Newfoundland.
Itsanice place to visit..
“I have a feeling that we will eventually find that the Norse had gone further inland than we think.”
Possibly even to Mexico (if the Quetzelcoatl story has any historical basis).
OR MAYBE NOT:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/codroy-valley-vikings-report-1.4684066
Labrador was a part of Newfoundland, which joined Canada in 1949. The name of the province of Newfoundland was changed to Newfoundland and Labrador a few years back.
I thought it had been pretty well established that the Vikings had penetrated as deeply into North America as the prairie provinces and Minnesota.
Thanks!
The Libprogs are not going to like celebrating
National Vikings discovered America Day.
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