Newfoundland Viking Site Remarkable

Canada.com ^ | 5-23-3008 | Jeff Lukovich

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[VeniVidiVici]

Wasn’t there some evidence that the Vikings made it down to Maine and Mass.?

[Oldexpat]

They did find some nuts at L’Anse Meadows that originated on the N.A. mainland.
It is interesting to note that the planet was much warmer during this period, which was followed by the little ice age which drove out the Vikings.
It also looks like the sea was about a meter higher when they settle in Newfoundland. That rise of the land..or sea going down, could have been casued by the land rebounding after the glacier age.
Great place to visit..

[okie01]

It is interesting to note that the planet was much warmer during this period...

Those Viking maritime SUVs, no doubt.

[marsh2]

Wasn’t there an Indian tribe on Nantucket with blue eyes and “gray” hair?

[Travis McGee]

If the Vikings had had the luck of Cortez.......

[Renderofveils]

The tribe that included the Nantucket area was the Wampanoag tribe. They were hit heavily by the epidemic in 1617 and their numbers dwindled. King Philip was the leader of this tribe that led them into open conflict with the white settlers and virtually eliminated all of the tribe. It’s highly unlikely that this tribe that had previously honored treaties with the settlers would have had unrecorded physiological differences between themselves and their surrounding tribes.

[blam]

Letter From Newfoundland: Homing In On The Red Paint People

[Rebelbase]

Cool Pics of L’Anse aux Meadows
http://tinyurl.com/4mrhc6

[blam]

Excellent, thanks.

[Rebelbase]

It’s interesting how European settlement in North America failed unless there was at least annual re-supply from the motherland.

[Snickering Hound]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_the_Greenlanders

[norwaypinesavage]

"Wasn’t there some evidence that the Vikings made it down to Maine and Mass.?"

Actually, there's the Kensington Rune stone from around Northfield Minnesota. Isn't amazing how the Norwegians settled Minnesota twice, a thousand years apart, and left no evidence of their first travels anywhere else? Couldn't be a fake.

[Boreas]

I met a couple this morning from MA who are on their way to the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows. It's nearing a record year for icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland.

Iceberg Map at Iceberg Finder

[marsh2]

Here is an interesting article on the Mandans http://www.geocities.com/athens/aegean/9318/mandan.html

[blam]

(Prince) Madoc In America

DNA Study To Settle Ancient Mystery About Mingling Of Inuit, Vikings

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[metesky]

L'Anse aux Meadows is the first and only authenticated Norse site on this continent. It was first brought to worldwide attention in 1960 by Helge and Anne Ingstad, a Norwegian couple who had searched for years to solve the puzzle of the sagas.

I was in high school in 1960 and remember the controversy over the discovery. Questioning the originality of Columbus's discovery was considered heresy of the highest order, especially by my Italian-American history teacher.

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