GGG Ping.
I thought we have had evidence of Viking settlements in Labrador for many years. Does the map really change things. Yes, they were here before Columbus. Whut...??
Just how does this affect the Viking Kitties, I wonder?
More from our ancestors
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Every few years this map makes it's rounds in the media. I thought the last time it was thouroughly debunked as a fake, but I don't remember details. Does anyone remember?
I think it's pretty clear that the Vikings were in America long before Columbus. The L'Anse Aux Meadows site, the viking coins recovered on cape cod, and the increasingly apparent accuracy of the Icelandic sagas all point to this as fact instead of legend.
No big suprise. The Vikings were explorers.
Personally I suspect that this continent and south America were receiving visitors and transplants from both the east and west for a long time. After all the pacific islanders managed to populate the pacific all by themselves. Getting to Hawaii and Easter island are a far cry from a little island hop.
I wonder when the a priori view of history will be corrected. There are many clues and evidences that the history we were taught left out much and speculated at much.
Contemplate the Piri Reis map too!
http://www.prep.mcneese.edu/engr/engr321/preis/piri_r~1.htm
At risk of sounding politically correct...I'm not sure of the significance of Vikings landing here "first" since Native Americans were already here. The significance of Columbus was not that he was here first -- he wasn't -- but rather that he brought news of the area back to Europe, sparking an historical period of settlement and colonization. And that's pretty darn significant. So if the Vikings didn't do that, AND they weren't here before the Natives, then who cares?
Columbus was not the first to discover America, but he was the last.
Did they get this map from Bill Burkett, Mary Mapes, or Dan Rather? /sarc
The historians entirely miss the point the layman grasped long ago. The layman knows that who first discovered America doesn’t matter as much as whose discovery stuck.
Did Yale pay the Danes to validate the Hoax?
That's five centuries before columbus?
L'anse aux meadows in Newfoundland was discovered in 1960 by Helge Ingstad of Norway to be the site of Leif Ericsson's settlement. "Vin" in Vinland is Old Norse for meadows. The area is similar to Greenland's coastal areas.