Shocking New Evidence Suggests Norse Hunters Met Indigenous North Americans 500 Years Before Columbus

The Debrief ^ | September 27, 2024 | Christopher Plain

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It seems too much of a conincidence that a Scandanavian guy found it on his farm. Now if a Native American found it, I would suspect it might be real. I have no idea, one way or the other.

I'm unfamiliar with the Oklahaoma find, and what the scholars have to say. I'll check it out.

Contemporary scholars work overtime trying to erase any vestiage of White people existing in pre-Columbian America. It sticks in their craw that a European might have been here before Columbus.

[piasa]

Don’t know if they were killed off, or simply run out of the area, or a combination of both. Weaker historic tribes that were defeated or run out of their territory often merged into larger groups further away from their enemies.

[DannyTN]

That’s not shocking.

Electric Eel Mermaids. Those are shocking!!

Shockingly beautiful!!
Shockingly embraces!!

[T.B. Yoits]

My big question comes from all we’ve heard about 16th century Europeans bringing smallpox and measles, and wiping out native populations through disease, why didn’t it happen with the Norse interactions? Were the Thule tribes too spread out and isolated for plagues to easily spread?

Cold weather and that the Norse didn't defecate in the drinking water.

[californian by choice]

It has been talked about before, it seems that this meeting between those two peoples did not leave any aftereffect.

[AlanSC]

Yep, Leif Erickson (son of Erik the red) was here first and thought this was widely known.

[norwaypinesavage]

There are many people who believe the Kensington Runestone is not a fake. It was thoroughly surrounded by tree roots, meaning that the tree grew over it many years before it was found. It also contained runes that were not in use at the time, so it’s unlikely that the finder would have known them.

[norwaypinesavage]

There are many people who believe the Kensington Runestone is not a fake. It was thoroughly surrounded by tree roots, meaning that the tree grew over it many years before it was found. It also contained runes that were not in use at the time, so it’s unlikely that the finder would have known them.

[Verginius Rufus]

In 986 Bjarni Herjolfsson was trying to get to Greenland but missed it...he saw the coasts of what is now eastern Canada but never went ashore. He finally made it to Greenland and was made fun of for not having gone ashore. Leif Eriksson knew of his voyage and retraced his route about the year 1000 and did go ashore. He called one area Vinland (probably Newfoundland).

The local natives were too hostile so an attempt to colonize Vinland was abandoned.

[AlanSC]

Thanks for info on Bjarni. If I had heard of him before it has slipped out of the memory.

[Jemian]

A better title would be: More New Evidence Reinforces the Opinion That Suggests Norse Hunters Met Indigenous North Americans 500 Years Before Columbus,

I learned this back in Alabama in the fourth grade 1963 - 1964.

[Red Badger]

I was shocked by an Electric Ray once at the beach. Caught it in my cast net and mistook it for a harmless guitar fish.

Picked it up to put it back in the water and it knocked me on my ass..........

[gleeaikin]

Since this walrus hunting by Vikings probably occurred about 1000 years after Christ, I doubt the academics were even thinking about before Christ, much less having feelings about something they had no interest in doing.

[gleeaikin]

If you like shocking new evidence, check out the book 1421, written about the probable discovery and exploration of both east and west cost Americas by Chinese fleets, as well as a number of other parts of the not yet discovered world (by Europeans at least). This book points out the likelihood that Columbus, the Portuguese, and Magellan all had access to map information developed by the Chinese on those voyages.

[Red Badger]

I’ve heard of that.................

[Salamander]

Maybe because the Norse were fastidiously clean people?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks but the book is nonsense.

[SunkenCiv]

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  • So why did 'Columbus sail the ocean blue' in 1492? [08/04/2019]
  • Was Islam responsible for Columbus setting sail to find a sea route to India & China? [08/03/2016]
• Was Christopher Columbus in Greenland 15 years before he discovered America? [06/12/2015]
  • Hidden secrets of 1491 world map revealed via multispectral imaging [06/12/2015]
  • South Iceland Cave Made before Settlement [04/20/2015]
• History Channel "Proves" Chinese Came To America Before Columbus [03/06/2021]
  • Did China discover AMERICA? Ancient Chinese script carved into rocks may prove Asians lived in New W [07/09/2015]
  • Of Course The Chinese Didn't Discover America. But Then Nor Did Columbus [01/20/2006]
  • Chinese map claims to back theory that China discovered America [01/17/2006]
  • China map lays claim to Americas ( China Won't Stop at Taiwan?) [01/14/2006]
  • China map lays claim to Americas [01/13/2006]
  • PBS Previews: 1421: the year China discovered America? [07/21/2004]

[gleeaikin]

Thank you for your scientific integrity listing various sources about 1421 even though you disagree with the book. Cheers

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

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