Something About Canada's Viking Site No Longer Makes Sense [8:45]

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[snip] When archaeologists excavated the waterlogged peat inside the turf buildings at L'Anse aux Meadows, they uncovered an anomaly that shattered standard textbook narratives about Norse exploration: three butternuts and pieces of worked butternut wood. Because this hardwood tree cannot tolerate subarctic conditions and has never grown within hundreds of miles of northern Newfoundland, the seeds prove that Norse crews were sailing far south into the warm estuaries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The physical architecture at the site tells an entirely different story from the idyllic agricultural colony described in the sagas. Instead of livestock pens and barns, excavators found elite chieftain halls and a bog iron bloomery dedicated to forging boat rivets to repair ocean-going hulls. Using high-precision cosmic ray dating tied to the solar storm of 993 CE, scientists confirmed that Norse sailors were actively felling trees in North America in the exact calendar year 1021. Combined with microscopic timber analysis showing North American wood inside Greenland farmhouses 300 years later, L'Anse aux Meadows emerges not as a failed settlement, but as a strategic staging post for centuries of silent, unrecorded transatlantic voyages. [/snip]
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1 posted on 09/14/2026 11:02:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

Watch for the Little Ice Age topics listing.

2 posted on 09/14/2026 11:03:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)

Interesting. I visited the site in the mid 1970s.

3 posted on 09/14/2026 11:08:10 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo ( )

To: NewHampshireDuo

Irrelevant aside — the YT transcript rendered the name as “Lance O’Meadows”. 😁

4 posted on 09/14/2026 11:21:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)

5 posted on 09/14/2026 11:23:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy

One of their Irish captives no doubt...............

6 posted on 09/14/2026 11:34:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)

Did it make sense before?

7 posted on 09/14/2026 11:45:45 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)

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