Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago

The New York Times ^ | 20 Oct 2021 | Katherine Kornei

[Theoria]

Perhaps Oklahoma.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Some descendant of Boltar ad his Indian wife? Yes I read the Prince Valiant comic strip in my youth.
Valiant chases a Viking villain to the New World, fights him over the Great Falls we today call Niagara. Boltar took home an Indian wife while on that trip.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Well they made it as far as Oklahoma. Ever hear of The Heavener Runestone?

[Vermont Lt]

My sister did one of those DNA things. We came mostly from the British Isles…with distinct Nordic and Italian lines.

I told her our women were only raped by the best invaders.

[Interesting Times]

I would have never guessed that there were 1,000+ yr old trees up there.

There aren't. They use overlapping ring sets to build a timeline.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Bad weather.

It got really cold.

Cold is bad, warm is good.

[nascarnation]

As I always say, when the SHTF, and it takes a lot of hard labor to keep warm, the entitlement army is heading south.

[Lockbox]

Thanks, that is a new one for me.

[gnarledmaw]

Does he have high cheekbones?

All those home tests are scams to get you to turn in a sample. Go to whichever video site you use these days and watch the videos of people that have done them more than once and the videos of identical twins. Then start to look into the who and why.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It is partly why I stay in the north.

It has disadvantages but freezing cold tends to reduce.... problematical infestations.

[ScottinVA]

Floki would’ve gone on to North Carolina if he had the resources to do it.

[SisterK]

Damn.... why couldn’t the Vikings have visited Texas.....

came pretty darned close
Poteau, Oklahoma

[GingisK]

Isn’t that where Flokie took them?

[Carriage Hill]

I’ve heard of dendrochronology, but didn’t know the details. Thanks.

[rlmorel]

Agreed. I am a big fan of Christopher Columbus.

If a tree is discovered, and the tree falls on the guy and he tells nobody, did he really discover it?

[rlmorel]

Of course!

[xp38]

Well Columbus visited the Caribbean islands South and Central America in his 4 voyages. He never set foot on the actual US as far as we know.

[Chickensoup]

So what?

[Kevmo]

The Basques were cod fishing the waters around Labrador for 50 years before Cabot “discovered” it.
https://www.amazon.com/Cod-Biography-Fish-Changed-World/dp/0140275010

They kept it to themselves as a trade secret.

[Mr Rogers]

;>)