[LostTribe]

>Farley Mowat in Farfarer the original settlers of Iceland, Greenland and North America were the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Scotland who predated the Vikings by several hundred years

Do you have a tighter date than that? Technically, the pre-Celts were either (1) Israelites who left Egypt by sea prior to the overland Exodus, or (2) Israelites who left Moses merry band after the overland Exodus but prior to the Assyrian Captivity of the Northern Kingdom ~922 BC. That would be almost 2,000 years before the Vikings discovered America.

However the many different and dispersed Celtic tribes had lots of time between their appearance at the same time and place the Northern Kingdom (Lost Tribes of Israel) appeared in history ~610 BC, and the time of the Vikings.

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[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Rubbish. The pre-Celts were simply the population of Western Europe that was living in Western Europe prior to the invasions of the Celts. The Basques, for instance, are pre-Celtic; their language in fact is non-Indo-European, and not related to any other living language. The pre-Celts were living in Western Europe for tens of thousands of years before there was any such thing called "Israel" or "Jews". There was no migration of "lost tribes" of Jews into Western Europe; pre-celts, in fact, are far too early, whilst celts and other Indo-Europeans are too well documented as being from Europe, not the middle east.

[CholeraJoe]

Mowat places the settlement of Iceland at 640 AD, Greenland about 50 years later and North America at about 750AD. These were indigenous people inhabiting the Shetlands and Orkneys since 1500 BCE who were eventually driven out by Celts. I don't buy the lost tribe stuff. The ancient world was settled by the survivors of Atlantis.