Posted on 07/28/2022 2:35:32 PM PDT by Chuckster
Most estimates have relied heavily on information gleaned from Icelandic sagas, but since these were only written down centuries after the fact and talk about things like glittery one-footed assassins, researchers have wisely taken them with a grain of salt.
But the new study, published today in the journal Nature, has pinpointed the Viking presence in North America to an exact year: 1021
Viking suvs and coal fired power stations made the climate warmer too
Did they think that by jumping around and using both “CE” and “AD” that I wouldn’t register a complaint on FR?
Once they hit Greenland they were in North America
Saint Brendan and his Irish monks beat them by about five hundred years.
There were probably many such explorations that never went anywhere that we do not know about. The Vikings discovery did not go anywhere and does not lessen Columbus’ impact.
Columbus was not even aware of the Vikings’ work and independently discovered America. Columbus’ work resulted in significant colonization and interactions between separate regions of the world and ultimately ... the birth of a new country.
The way I’ve heard it is “once Columbus discovered it, it stayed discovered.”
” “CE” and “AD”
they’ve been doing this nonsense for quite awhile now.
If you want to get a leftist historian really mad, call C.E. “Christian Era”.
The author is an idiot. Native Americans of both North and South America have been there for at least 40,000 years, if not nearly 100,000 years.
I think he is technically right. The globe wasn’t circled till someone crossed the Atlantic.
The first Viking all-terrain vehicle was named “Ragnar”.
Yes that is a great way to put it.
100k is a stretch I think but 40-50k is a certainty at this point, but further finding could extend that and probably will.
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I think the distinction that the author is trying to make is that Native Americans migrated from the West (Asia by way of Siberia) and the Vikings came from the East (Scandinavia). When the Vikings got here it was the first time that humans had encircled the globe.
100k is a stretch
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There is a site in California that dates to 130,000; and many in S Am/Mexico that date as far back as 300,000
We also don’t know how many vikings made the crossing,
never to return.
I suppose it's too much to expect people to actually read the article before commenting. But that's Free Republic for you. Everyone has an opinion whether they know the subject or not.
DNA research has shown that many natives of Iceland have around 2 % DNA from Native Americans - showing a connection between them
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