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Did the Scandinavians beat Columbus to America twice?
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Posted on 10/22/2003 6:39:07 AM PDT by mhking
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To: Fierce Allegiance
There should be! Uffda to you, too, my friend.
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posted on
10/22/2003 11:00:31 AM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD is still in control!)
To: farmfriend
That book, if I ever write it, will be many years in the future.
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posted on
10/22/2003 11:24:50 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
Just imagine if North America had been settled by Vikings beginning in AD 1000! How does that sound for an epic novel! Asatruist Viking *Pilgrims* fleeing the [Christian] religious persecution of Harald Bluetooth? Sounds like a Viking Free State Project.
I seem to recall something similar in one of Clive Cussler's yarns, though I'm not certain about the First Millenia timeframe setting. And there's at least one book you might find to be of interest that's not fiction on something along those lines.
-archy-/-
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posted on
10/22/2003 2:18:24 PM PDT
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: Fierce Allegiance
is there a Norwegian ping list? Uff da! There's a *Suomi ping list* for Finns.
Suomi, how I love ya, how I love ya, my dear old Suomi.... -archy-/-
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posted on
10/22/2003 2:20:58 PM PDT
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: Travis McGee
That book, if I ever write it, will be many years in the future. I hate to mention this, but circa 1000 a.d. would be many years in the past.
-archy-/-
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posted on
10/22/2003 2:22:17 PM PDT
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: mhking
What?!?!?! 40+ replies and no Swedish Bikini Team pics? Surely, the SBT was instrumental in the discovery and opening of the New World!
To: archy
Well, it has to get in line after Domestic Enemies, Foreign Enemies, and some straight adventure yarns I already have in the hopper.
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posted on
10/22/2003 3:39:17 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
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To: ASA Vet
This guy preceded the Asian immigrants by several centuries.
Jean Luke Pickard ?
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posted on
10/22/2003 3:43:49 PM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit. -Rush Limbaugh)
To: Travis McGee
There is at least one such book based on the rune stone. I cannot remember its name, but I read it as a kid while attending a Norwegian language camp in Minnesota. It was a darn good story about a Scandinavian expedition gone horribly wrong.
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posted on
10/22/2003 3:50:12 PM PDT
by
Seydlitz
To: Seydlitz
I'd love to read it!
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posted on
10/22/2003 4:00:11 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
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To: Erasmus; Fierce Allegiance; Uff Da; Marysecretary; Seydlitz
Ten thousand Swedes
Ran through the weeds,
Chased by one Norwegian.
He smelled so bad,
They sure were glad
When they had left the region.
To: Charles Henrickson
I remember that only too well from my childhood. My mother was always saying that (at least the first half of it). Ah, such memories.
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posted on
10/23/2003 5:46:25 AM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD is still in control!)
To: Marysecretary
My mother was always saying that (at least the first half of it). I don't think she would have said the second half, since I made it up.
To: Charles Henrickson
Cute. Norwegians and Swedes have always had this sorta hatred for each other. Kinda like the Hatfields and the McCoys.
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posted on
10/23/2003 8:34:00 AM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD is still in control!)
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posted on
01/24/2006 10:41:43 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(In the long run, there is only the short run.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
This is a re-ping to an old and moldy topic.
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posted on
12/27/2014 1:37:16 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Thermalseeker
“I always wondered how anybody could consider Columbus, or anybody else from Europe, “discovering” the Americas when roughly 20 million people already lived here and had for a dozen centuries...”
Come on! The Americas were unknown to the rest of the “civilized” world. It was discovered in that sense by either Columbus or the Vikings.
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posted on
12/27/2014 2:04:04 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: mhking
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posted on
12/27/2014 2:06:31 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Thermalseeker
It’s the status quo of Euro-centric history.
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