[pillut48]

I thought the FReeper 'Vikings' here might appreciate this article. ;-) I'm just fascinated by all this DNA tracking back through time toward 'Eve'!

[alstewartfan]

Surprisingly, Brett Favre was thinking of retirement even back then. Bob

[GladesGuru]

From the article:
“Until now, the historical evidence has suggested that while the Vikings may have reached the Americas, they didn’t really engage with the indigenous population.”

“Engage” seems not sufficient. “Consummate” it the correct word.

[Bryanw92]

Be cautious, Vikings. Once the contact between Vikings and native Americans has been proven, the Left will use something obscure like a finger bone and soil sample to invent a history where a million billion native Americans died from Viking diseases as the result of that contact.

[1000 silverlings]

yes it’s interesting stuff — we have a Cherokee grandmother with blue eyes. Did dna testing, found Norwegian

[La Lydia]

My comment is the same as the first time this story was posted:

Very Euro-centric. Who’s to say she didn’t get their on her own? Perhaps a bunch of Native Americans “discovered” Iceland and left behind some of their DNA. Since there is no historic record, it is just as possible.

[sinanju]

Most likely a Greenland Inuit woman.

[Juan Medén]

I propose a compromise: The United States of Americsson.

[Darksheare]

Narrator: Once again, it is not Santa who has come to Larry’s door, but this time a savage Norseman.

Larry: Who are you?

Viking: I’m a Viking!
And I’ve come to take your land,
Oh yes! I’ve come to take your land,
And I’ve come to burn your crops and steal your horses!
And I’ve come to...uh, step on your chickens...
And soil your quilts!

Narrator: Although frightened by the intruder, in the spirit of Christmas, Larry makes an offering.

Larry: I don’t have land.
I don’t have crops, my Viking friend,
But I have cookies!
Two yummy cookies!
And I don’t have horses,
But please take this my Viking friend.
Eat one of these my Viking friend.
They are for Santa, but you may have one!

Narrator: The Viking is also touched by Larry’s good will, but Larry’s thoughts are still with Santa.

[texmexis best]

North America is about two hundred miles from Greenland. The idea that 200 hundred miles would not be traversed by the the Vikings is laughable. Sailors sail.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Part Cherokee, no doubt.

[RatRipper]

Another voting block for the Rats to isolate and patronize:

the Scandanavian - Native/ Asian American - Americans

[FrdmLvr]

As a Viking descendant, I thank you.

[Captain Beyond]

I remember back in my first year of college we were supposed to read 4 books on history other than US. I did not read the outline right it was to read 4 books on historical persons that had helped to influence the building of America that were not Americans but I ended up reading 4 books on Vikings two of which were about Vikings coming to America. We had to write an essay on them plus an oral examine to see if we really had read them. My professor ended up giving me a B because I had really read the books did a bunch of follow up on other sources about vikings but it was embarrassing when I went into his office and he explained the assignment to me again and I had to justify why I read only books on vikings. My first experience at free style razzle dazzle on BS’ing my teacher didn't go over so well but I guess he gave me a B for effort. :) I guess that what happens when you spend to much time reading Robert E. Howard books and other barbarian adventures.

[MosesKnows]

Pity poor Leif Ericsson

Even Archeologist must have learned by now what the layman has always known. It is not who was first but rather who made it stick that counts.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The name of the Viking was BOLTAR. He served under Prince Valiant who make a trip to the New World and fought an Indian chief on a rock above what we now call Niagra Falls.

The Indian woman became the wife of Boltar. So said Hal Foster’s 1970s comic strip.

[Gene Eric]

Viking ping.