[vannrox]

Posted for information purposes only. The opinions are of the writer and not the poster, though he makes some interesting points.

[Lessismore]

If the Old World had these endemic diseases, then why didn't the Indians contract them from the Viking explorers? Or, for that matter, whey didn't they contract them from the Eskimo, who migrated much later than the Indians, and who kept contact with their Siberian counterparts across the Bering Straits?

[Jim Noble]

This should be able to be tested by Y-chromosome and mt-DNA analysis soon-our history is more complex, and more interesting, than we have thought.

[sawsalimb]

Farley Mowatt,the author of a book called The Farfarers, makes an interesting postulation that there was a society of Europeans who predated the Vikings. The postulated group,who he refers to as "Albans",are supposed to have established outposts across the southern Arctic,and as far south as the present day Maritime Provinces. This group-if they indeed existed-could also account for some European genes in the Narragansett population.

[Antoninus]

My only problem with this theory is that one would think that there would be some linguistic affinities between Viking language and Naragansett. To my knowledge, none have been found.

A very interesting post nevertheless.

Anything to add, Claud?

[Genesis defender]

really old Vikings bump

[LadyDoc]

There have been traces of AmerIndian DNA (female) in Norway...so someone came back with the Vikings...but it wasn’t just the Vikings.

Basque and other fishermen were fishing in the Grand Banks since the early 1400’s. Some might have blown to shore and got some R&R with the local ladies and left some DNA behind.

and if you really want to start a fight, ask if the MaineCoon Cat breed came over with the Vikings...