[americanophile]

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[padre35]

Had me going to bad he had to muck it up with the Temlpars.

To me there can be no doubt that Vikings explored North America’s coastlines from Greenland or Iceland.

[Claud]

Wolter points out those groups were looking for minerals like copper, lead, nickel, zinc, gold and silver - all found abundantly in the Great Lakes region. "We've found hundreds of places where they were mined hundreds of years ago," Wolter said. "Who did it? The Native Americans didn't do it."

No? There are plenty of copper ornaments in pre-Columbian archaeological sites. The Indians mined it and cold-hammered it into shape....they just didn't smelt it. I dunno about the other metals, but it wouldn't surprise me either. The Hopewell people had a vast trade network and, apparently, the wealth to care about such things.

That said, I am open to new theories about who got here when.

[decimon]

I’d think that any sizable number of strangers would be in Indian tales and totems.

[hennie pennie]

Didn't the History Channel recently have a 2-hour long program about this hypothesis?

[Sacajaweau]

Never did take him too seriously. My best guess was that he was messin' with the Queen and taking a cruise was a payoff.

Always thought he was probably the coolest guy in Town...The Queen wasn't about to pass him up but she also had to get him out of town and ordered him to discover someplace different.

And that's where the phrase....Land Ho!! came from!!

[IronKros]

Hmmm... I thought it was solidly accepted that the vikings where here before 1492?

[SunkenCiv]

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[lexington minuteman 1775]

I suspected Andrew Rune was at least 200 years myself but it was not due to weathering....bwahahahahaha...maybe the eyebrows are younger?/snicker.

[urtax$@work]

what about the Heavner runestones in Ok. ?

[Just mythoughts]

Someone marked this rock a long time ago.

http://www.heavener.k12.ok.us/community/runestone/rune.htm

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wolter said the backlash from the historical and archaeological communities comes from challenging a long-established paradigm.

Sort of like Climategate.