To: Perseverando
Well the Vikings has a settlement in Greenland from about 900 to 1360 or so. when they stopped getting stuff from them they sent Eric the red to find out what happened to them. The several viking ships ended up going down Hudson Bay into the Great Lakes, and ended up losing 6 to the Black Death or maybe Indians. they left a Rune Stone behind dated in 1362. There were several Viking settlements in the USS long before Columbus.
6 posted on
12/12/2019 11:15:01 AM PST by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: stubernx98
There is some evidence that Basque fishermen following the cod runs, went to Newfoundland & Labrador. They also could have introduced disease.
7 posted on
12/12/2019 11:17:55 AM PST by
Reily
To: stubernx98
It wasn't Eric the red, but the rest of that is a nice summation of Hjalmar Holand's take on the Kensington Rune Stone.
15 posted on
12/14/2019 11:43:55 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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