Posted on 09/23/2023 9:53:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
No problem.. I spent a number of years in a Scandinavian country at an impressionable age and became a viking, well, enthusiast may be too strong.
When someone says, vikings (more likely, generic Norsemen) could not have been “there,” I take out a globe. Turn it so Norway and Sweden are in the center as you look at it. Look at all the places we know the Norse went: Kiev, Constatinople, Southern Italy, “Normandy” of course, England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Vinland. That makes a huge circle with only a few areas within it not named.
When someone says, surely they could not have gone there, I say, they went everywhere else, why would they NOT go there? The Alexandria, Minnesota runestone? There are definitely technical problems, but it’s well within where I expect some Norse would have gone.
Thanks I saw a documentary on it amazing how they had the ability to do so many things.
That’s nothing, they traveled nearly 3000 miles (more than 2000 as the crow flies) to trade with the Arabs.
Even Iceland — which the Vikings colonized — is 750 miles away (across open ocean), and its northern tip touches the Arctic Circle.
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