View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America

MSN.com ^ | 31 March 2016 | Ralph Blumenthal

[zeestephen]

A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, further south than ever known.

[zeestephen]

Ping: SunkenCiv

“View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America”

[Noumenon]

Now the axe! Now the sword! Splintered shields!

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Salamander]

DVR set.

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks zeestephen!

[mountn man]

[Beowulf9]

Viking kitties! Love ‘em but I want thee sun stone!

[DannyTN]

Vikings in Space

[zeestephen]

It's interesting to speculate about any contact - cooperative, assimilative, or violent - between Vikings and the indigenous Siberian-Americans.

Unless hugely outnumbered, I think the military edge was clearly with the Vikings.

[Verginius Rufus]

Another location in Newfoundland.

Glad that they weren't talking about Alexandria, Minnesota.

[Verginius Rufus]

Another location in Newfoundland.

Glad that they weren't talking about Alexandria, Minnesota.

[JRios1968]

You can say that again!

[MinorityRepublican]

So the Vikings had 500 years on other Europeans. What happened to them?

[null and void]

They were frozen out...

[MinorityRepublican]

The Little Ice Age that took place after the Medieval Warming Period?

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

I doubt there was much of an edge for the Vikings -- bow and arrows, and spears, differed little from 'skraelings' to Vikings. The Vikings had metal weapons and perhaps armor, but I suspect that to economize, the amount of armor among colonizers was much lower than it was among the population back home. Also, they were likely greatly inferior in numbers, give or take nutjobs like the daughter of Eric the Red, who killed half the women on one expedition, doing it while they slept.

[wildbill]

Archeologists need to continue looking farther south. The Vikings weren’t stupid. When they saw the climate was milder and the land richer and more easily tilled the further south they went, they’d have to go for it.

Now, my personal theory (which I will not elaborate on here for fear of abuse from flat-earthers)is based on the fact that the Aztecs god, Quetzalcoatl, was a white, blond man who came from the East to their shores.

I mean, what more proof do you need? Huh? Huh?