Absolutely. More and more is finally seeping though the arrogant egotistical control filter. I will fully take your back with your ideology because it has been my own for years also.
Things like “The Vikings could never have been in the Great Lakes because they could not have gotten their boats there”.
Really? They did not know how to walk on land at all? Or build another boat as needed from local trees after they walked the very short distance to the Great Lakes? They were always in too much of a hurry and didn’t have time to do this?
The one who claimed this was the President of a Maritime Historical Organization and the foremost expert. He also went on to say...
“They would have had to tow extra boats from their home port “shipyards” and then would have had to portage/carry them to the lakes so it is impossible”.
What??? lol
So much missing logic. So much narrow thinking as a standard MO...
Pretty funny hey? Claiming that the vikings couldnt have traveled the great lakes because the lakes were not there.
When the vikings traveled the great lakes, it would have been the 14th century..or earlier if Vinland is considered a advanced point of exploration for them.
The Great lakes had fully formed by then.
How effn dumb can so called “experts” be?
BTW, maybe they better consider the copper mining done around the Keweenaw peninsula and explain how that type of copper got to the mid eastern area of the world. WAY before the Vikings were thought of. To pick up that float copper the glaciers would have had to have brought it to that area first. Then the lakes filled from the ice melt creating an avenue for them to sail up and get that copper.
Thanks! It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who actually THINKS! (Even though I do have blonde roots...)
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The distinguished gentleman should read the chronicles of the Lewis and Clark expedition. They managed.
If the trade was a regular thing, then the boats/canoes/whatever, once built or otherwise gotten there, would have been making the back and forth trip regularly.