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Who were the giants? Natives? Or Vikings?
The Vinland Map has recently been proved to be a fake - is this any different?
Whew!
For a moment this was going to be about Milo Rambaldi...
That was close...
I’m not convinced from this article that it wasn’t something he invented. Who was going to prove him wrong?
This is a very interesting article. Thank you. This monk, Galvaneus, was pretty industrious.
What is funny is this translator, Ghioldi, had trouble translating the text because (like me) “…rather because he had to deal with inconsistent models: there is evidence that he used some incomplete and unfinished manuscripts by Galvaneus, which were sometimes difficult to read, enriched by marginal notes and slips”.
I hope Galvaneus or Ghioldi get a laugh out of that!
(“beyond the Ireland there is another smaller island, where no one ever dies. People at a very old age, however, if taken off the island, die immediately).”
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By the 1300’s Vikings had travelled through out Europe, no doubt spreading tales of discoveries far and wide. That some monk heard and recorded such a tale about lands far to the west is hardly astonishing. In preprinting press days, no surprise that it never went anywhere.
As for “giants,” native Americans were of stature equal to the Vikings and taller than most southern europeans.
We know THAT! They landed on Oak Island.
Sacsayhuaman?
Then there is the plank pulled out of the swamp carbon dated to 660 AD on Oak Island ...
Fascinating!
Greenland had an active church life and by the 1300’s had been able to acquire a bishop.
It’s long been speculated that the people of Greenland knew there was land to the west and that there might be some record of it in old church documents.