“As to the actual arrival circumstance, I’d ‘guess’ loot from a Viking haul that arrived via said Vikings.”
For more than fifty years now I have wondered why in the world anyone should be surprised to find there had been numerous pre-Columbian contacts between the Old World and New World cultures going back into the Paleolithic periods.
I like the story about the Carthaginian and Israeli sailors who voyaged from the Sinai, around the Cape of Good Hope, northwards through the Atlantic Ocean, and were shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico by a hurricane. Succeeding generations were integrated into an ancient tribe of Amerindians, who were compelled to migrate from Florida to Oklahoma, where 20th Century professors claimed to discover they were using an ancient form of Hebrew language and religious ceremony with an origin story describing their shipwreck.
There is an excellent book called “1421” the year the Chinese discovered America.
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Can I ask the story’s? I would be fascinated to read such an account. It seems quite probable to me.