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


3 posted on 05/24/2008 8:45:00 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Ted Kennedy is the finest collection of hops and barley money can buy)
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To: VeniVidiVici

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.
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4 posted on 05/24/2008 8:49:42 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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"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.

14 posted on 05/24/2008 11:28:17 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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