[Texas_Jarhead]

I thought I just read an article the other day proclaiming, at long last, the vinland map a clever fake.

[crystalk]

Now they need to officially admit that the so-called Newport Tower in Rhode Island is the cylindrical inner portion of an octagonal Norse church modeled after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, an almost exact copy of a church in Cambridge, England, built about 1076.

These Norsemen were very devout Catholics, like Columbus. This was long before Garrison's Lutheran church suppers, with all that gooey Campbell's Mushroom soup holding everything together.

Sic transit gloria.

[RightWhale]

Maybe so, Irish monks did a fair amount of scouting around long before that.

An interesting map-related factoid is that an early map, taken to be Ptolomaic, shows Cuba, and seems to be a redrawing of a much older map but done with no knowledge of map projections. The older map would have been a polar projection centered on Egypt, and would have possibly been before Phoenicians. Lot of maybes, but something is going on.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So...Sven and Ole discovered America ?

[curmudgeonII]

The Vinland map shows Greenland as an island.
A fact not known until comparatively modern times.

[ravinson]

It's high time that we rename this country "The United States of Vinland" ("USV") and celebrate "Eiriksson Day" with a National Holiday dedicated to the drinking of mass quantities of domestic sparkling wine.

[Mike Darancette]

“Island of Vinland,” which has been taken to represent an unknown part of present-day Labrador, Newfoundland, or Baffin Island. Text on the map reads, in part, “By God's will, after a long voyage from the island of Greenland to the south toward the most distant remaining parts of the western ocean sea, sailing southward amidst the ice, the companions Bjarni and Leif Eiriksson discovered a new land, extremely fertile and even having vines, ... which island they named Vinland.”

Seems that things around the world were were a bit warmer, must have been the CO2 emissions from all those Viking Long Boats.

[blam]

Study: New World Map A Forgery See post #28, lol.