Archaeologists find legendary Icelandic home

Quad-City Times ^ | 9/15/2002 | Quad-City Times Wire Services

[SteveH]

This may not quite be news since it happened a long time ago :-).

[Constitution Day]

Archaeology ping.

[joesnuffy]

Just click your ruby mukluks together three times and repeat... there's no place like Nome
There's no place like Nome...there's no place like Nome

[Constitution Day]

Snorri's not dead... he's just pining for the fjords!

[dfwgator]

<Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first person of European descent born in the New World.

Of course the PC left has a new scapegoat, it's all Snorri's fault.

[TruthConquers]

Icelandic heritage BUMPS!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Swedes discovered America ?

[MudPuppy]

tough woman BUMP.
thanks for sharing :)

[blam]

Good post/info. Thanks.

[aShepard]

Swedes discovered America

Time for reparations?

[xp38]

Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first person of European descent born in the New World.

It has always been my understanding that Iceland if it had to categorized was part of Europe not North America.

[xp38]

Geographically speaking of course.

[xJones]

The building is a classic German fortress longhouse like the Great Hall of Beowulf,?

Beo, don't look now, but I think you're in trouble. :)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ya, sure.

[Shooter 2.5]

how Snorri's parents led the first Scandinavian group that attempted to settle in Vinland on the Canadian coast around A.D. 1000.

The attempt failed, and the family moved to Iceland, but Snorri was born while they were there.

It's a poorly written sentence but it says that Snorry was born in Vinland [Canada]

[dts32041]

How come this is breaking news in a two bit paper in IOwa, and no where else?

[xp38]

My mistake...jumped the gun so to speak.

[mgstarr]

"..pining for the fjords"?!?!

What kind of talk is that??

[RonF]

“We had always assumed that the original house must be under the standing modern turf house, in the very same spot and therefore mostly destroyed,” said Sigridur Sigurardottir, the museum’s director. “But now we have found out that it was in our museum hay field all along, just under the surface.”

Obviously these guys have never had a house built. Usually you don't tear down the house you live in before you build the new one....

[Shooter 2.5]

No problem. I just noticed that I misspelled Snorri's name.
My big complaint with the "experts" is there were numerous voyages with hundreds of people over hundreds of years and they're claiming that a single family just had to have lived in a specific house. Sure.