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Archaeologists Closer to Finding Lost Viking Settlement
Live Science ^ | March 6, 2018 | Owen Jarus

Posted on 03/20/2018 1:38:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

A lost Viking settlement known as "Hóp," which has been mentioned in sagas passed down over hundreds of years, is said to have supported wild grapes, abundant salmon and inhabitants who made canoes out of animal hides. Now, a prominent archaeologist says the settlement likely resides in northeastern New Brunswick. If Hóp is found it would be the second Viking settlement to be discovered in North America. The other is at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland.

...using the description of the settlement from sagas of Viking voyages, along with archaeological work carried out at L'Anse aux Meadows and at Native American sites along the east coast of North America, an archaeologist has narrowed down the likely location of Hóp to northeastern New Brunswick....

"I am placing Hóp in the Miramichi-Chaleur bay area," Birgitta Wallace, a senior archaeologist emerita with Parks Canada who has done extensive research on the Vikings in North America, told Live Science. Hóp, she said, may not be the name of just one settlement, but rather an area where the Vikings may have created multiple short-term settlements whose precise locations varied from year to year. Tales of the Viking voyages were passed down orally before being written down, and "Hóp" may have been misunderstood as being just one site when it could have referred to several seasonal settlements, Wallace said.

...northeastern New Brunswick... contains wild grapes and salmon, barrier sandbars and a native population that used animal-hide canoes. "New Brunswick is the northern limit of grapes, which are not native either to Prince Edward Island or Nova Scotia," said Wallace, noting that grapes were not found in Maine, either.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: birgittawallace; canada; godsgravesglyph; godsgravesglyphs; grapes; hop; lanseauxmeadows; miramichichaleur; newbrunswick; newfoundland; parkscanada; vikings
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Danny & The Juniors At The Hop 1958

Danny & The Juniors At The Hop 1958

1 posted on 03/20/2018 1:38:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 03/20/2018 1:38:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Vikings Vinland in Sop's Arm -- Pollards Point Viking Museum Discoveries By Kent Budden

Vikings Vinland in Sop's Arm

3 posted on 03/20/2018 1:45:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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New North America Viking Voyage Discovered
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | June 5, 2013
https://www.livescience.com/37189-new-viking-voyage-discovered.html

Possible Viking Settlement in Canada Revealed in Satellite Images
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | April 1, 2016
https://www.livescience.com/54276-viking-discovery-newfoundland.html

Searching for the Vikings: 3 Sites Possibly Found in Canada
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | April 18, 2016
https://www.livescience.com/54439-three-possible-viking-outposts-discovered.html


4 posted on 03/20/2018 1:49:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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New North America Viking Voyage Discovered
LiveScience ^ | June 5, 2013 | Owen Jarus
Posted on 06/06/2013 7:08:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3028316/posts

View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America
MSN.com | 31 March 2016 | Ralph Blumenthal
Posted on 04/01/2016 9:28:40 AM PDT by zeestephen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3416443/posts


5 posted on 03/20/2018 2:03:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv
New Brunswick is the northern limit of grapes, which are not native either to Prince Edward Island or Nova Scotia,"

Yes but what was the northern limit of grapes 1000 years ago?

6 posted on 03/20/2018 2:14:29 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

In 1000, the earth’s climate was warm enough to have grapes in Canada. In the 1300’s, the planet cooled and that’s when you had famine and the Black Death.


7 posted on 03/20/2018 2:28:24 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: fso301

We think alike.


8 posted on 03/20/2018 2:55:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: MuttTheHoople

The year was 986.
Swedes and other Norskies lived and farmed in Greenland...
My kinfolk.


9 posted on 03/20/2018 5:20:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Thanks to Viking conquests in Great Britain, I have some Viking in my lineage. For a sad twist to the Ragnar saga...How the Old Boar would cry when he saw how his effeminate, leftist descendants allowed the Islamic invasion.
10 posted on 03/20/2018 6:29:49 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: SunkenCiv

Unless someone knows where this village is, how can it be asserted that the searchers are getting closer?


11 posted on 03/20/2018 7:54:30 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: ohioman

Great Grandfather came from Denmark in the early 1900s.

Always interesting to see new Viking finds or theories.


12 posted on 03/20/2018 8:28:27 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Reagan conservative: All 3 Pillars)
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To: CommerceComet
Because they've ruled out some areas they haven't searched yet. :^)

13 posted on 03/20/2018 11:44:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Doesn’t mean that they’ll ultimately find it. It’s possible that it is a myth like several other things in the sagas.


14 posted on 03/20/2018 11:59:57 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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This topic was posted 3/20/2018, and was pinged, but apparently the kw never got added (mea culpa) or there was some other kind of glitch.

15 posted on 03/20/2022 9:25:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They will do anything to disclaim that America was discovered by the Jewish guy named Christopher Columbus. If they did, does that mean Columbus, Ohio has to change its name to Viking, Ohio or some like stupid name???


16 posted on 03/20/2022 9:28:02 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: RetiredArmy
Thanks, that was good and nuts.

17 posted on 03/20/2022 10:00:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, you know the left. They demand nutty stuff!!


18 posted on 03/20/2022 11:27:38 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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Columbus/Christopher Columbus keywords, sorted, duplicates out, no deletions because I feel lazy:

19 posted on 03/20/2022 11:50:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

there’s a lost viking settlement in minnesota...


20 posted on 03/20/2022 11:52:04 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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