Did the Scandinavians beat Columbus to America twice?

Yahoo! News - AFP ^ | 10.22.03

[Marysecretary]

There should be! Uffda to you, too, my friend.

[Travis McGee]

That book, if I ever write it, will be many years in the future.

[archy]

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.

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[archy]

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-/-

[archy]

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.

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[HenryLeeII]

What?!?!?! 40+ replies and no Swedish Bikini Team pics? Surely, the SBT was instrumental in the discovery and opening of the New World!

[Travis McGee]

Well, it has to get in line after Domestic Enemies, Foreign Enemies, and some straight adventure yarns I already have in the hopper.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

This guy preceded the Asian immigrants by several centuries.

Jean Luke Pickard ?

[Seydlitz]

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.

[Travis McGee]

I'd love to read it!

[Charles Henrickson]

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.

[Marysecretary]

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.

[Charles Henrickson]

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.

[Marysecretary]

Cute. Norwegians and Swedes have always had this sorta hatred for each other. Kinda like the Hatfields and the McCoys.

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[SunkenCiv]

This is a re-ping to an old and moldy topic.

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[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“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.

[dfwgator]

[Rebelbase]

It’s the status quo of Euro-centric history.