WOW!
I have been to the Viking site at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, and seen the work they have done with the research and excavation there. Really interesting...worth the very long trip!
So...I am really geeked up over this discovery!
I would not be surprised that the Vikings also had encampments and settlements in other places around North America
Also, there was a program I saw a few months ago on History Channel, in which they were discussing the possibility of Viking settlers making their way as far as the Mississippi River...there is evidence that the Indians met Vikings thru some of the oral histories provided by the various tribes....reporting seeing “white men” about 1000 years ago.
More and more, I believe we will find that Vikings and Norsemen were in North America in much larger numbers than believed.
With today’s “Political Correctness” with Columbus and the New World...and how Mestizo/Mulatto/Indigenous peoples blame Columbus for their “misery, racism, and other problems”...wonder if they would be so willing to accept the Vikings as the first Europeans...or will their Spanish ethno-centricity be more welcoming of Columbus discovering the “New World”?
Hey...apologize for kinda repeating what another FReeper already described in better detail....about the “possibility of Vikings meeting up with natives”
My bad.
Just find the Vikings and the Nordic peoples very interesting
So, tea drinkers with boats that could sail the ocean, sail up the Mississippi, found Cahokia, pass out bows and arrows and do that all before the first Viking dragon boat had been built.
Trick is the Vikings made permanant contact with the Sa'ami some time AFTER 800 AD ~ and it was the Sa'ami boat used in wild mountain rivers and the nearby Arctic ocean that served as the design base for the later scaled up ocean going Viking boats.
So, Chinese first, then Spaniards, then Vikings ~