Posted on 07/12/2023 10:50:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ping!.........................
Thanks Red Badger. Should be another napalm-infused topic.
The Greenland settlements were modest in construction and modest in size, as were the Viking settlements in North America.
However, Columbus went to Iceland to learn all he could about the lands to the west while doing his due diligence before 1492.
Speaking of ‘NAPALM’....................
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-mystery-of-greek-fire/139514
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We went to England and pillaged
You’re welcome
It’s no great mystery
Then we went to Neefoundland
Newfoundland
Way before Columbus
Trump should have pressed Denmark to buy the uninhabited parts of the island or maybe just half of it. The wealth in minerals is priceless.
**** The notion of “Blond Eskimos” created a sensation in the media. However, modern DNA analysis has since disproven any Norse ancestry. ****
I recall an article that surmised that the Vikings (farmers) couldn’t adapt to the little ice age while the Inuit (hunters, fisherman) did - or weren’t affected by it much. They further speculated (I have no idea how they would have any proof) that the Christian Vikings refused to participate with the Inuit hunts to their pagan rituals performed prior to going out to hunt or fish.
Would lend to the idea of them not marrying any Inuit either. Although it is surprising that over a few hundred years on Greenland, not enough Vikings strayed into an Inuit camp to leave a DNA footprint.
Perhaps the Inuit did things to keep their bloodlines pure (infanticide?).
They went to Oklahoma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_runestones
Within the last year or two, I read “The Frozen Echo”, Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca A.D. 1000-1500 by Kirsten A. Searver, 1996
She studied Catholic Church records and discovered much interesting information on the Viking residents of Greenland. The church was interested in the tithes of all its people. Her maps show that they all lived prety much between 20-50 km from the permanent ice sheet the extent of which was and probably now is determined mainly by the temperature of the ocean water. I doubt if the “little ice age” was responsible for their disappearance.
Yes we did I’m still here
The vexed issue of the Kensington Runestone and the lost Greenland Colony. The king of Sweden and Norway in 1354 believed that there were Christian Danes in Greenland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone
SNIP......”Furthermore, in 1354, King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden and Norway issued a letter appointing a law officer named Paul Knutsson as leader of an expedition to the colony of Greenland, in order to investigate reports that the population was turning away from Christian culture.[39] Another of the documents reprinted by the 19th-century scholars was a scholarly attempt by Icelandic Bishop Gisli Oddsson, in 1637, to compile a history of the Arctic colonies. He dated the Greenlanders’ fall away from Christianity to 1342 and claimed that they had turned instead to America. Supporters of a 14th-century origin for the Kensington Runestone argue that Knutson may, therefore, have travelled beyond Greenland to North America in search of renegade Greenlanders, whereupon most of his expedition was killed in Minnesota, leaving just the eight voyagers to return to Norway.[40]”
However, there is no evidence that the Knutson expedition ever set sail (the government of Norway went through considerable turmoil in 1355) and the information from Cnoyen as relayed by Mercator states specifically that the eight men who came to Norway in 1364 were not survivors of a recent expedition, but descended from the colonists who had settled the distant lands several generations earlier.[38] Those early 19th-century books, which aroused a great deal of interest among Scandinavian Americans, would have been available to a late 19th-century hoaxer. “
https://runestonemuseum.org/runestone/
It is my theory that most Native American Indians east of the Mississippi are of European descent and not Asian as the western natives are supposedly are........................
Hjalmar Holand, runestone hero
https://www.norwegianamerican.com/hjalmar-holand-runestone-hero/
Books by Hjalmar Rued Holand
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/hjalmar-rued-holand/618172/
Supposedly there are ‘Old World’ records of the Bishop of Vinland as well.
:^)
Napalm was around even before Ayepalm.
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