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To: crystalk
I'm just throwing this out for thought but didn't the Mayans have some sort of a legend about a blond man with blue eyes?

Maybe the Norse have been exploring a lot longer than we dare to think...
22 posted on 01/09/2002 2:21:15 PM PST by RebelDawg
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To: RebelDawg
Norse were at Peterborough, Ont, in 1700 BC era.

Yes, there was a whole panel on an interior mural at Chichen Itza that showed the Maya engaged in a naval battle with Vikings, but it was too politically incorrect, so it was sent to Mexico City to go into hiding.

Yes, Chichen was founded about 870 ad, just when so many Norse were fleeing over seas to escape the terrible rule of a certain king whose name I do not have before me. The Danish were of course at that point still the rank and file seamen, and if you look at your standard Maya dictionary with a little old-Danish in your head, you can amaze yourself.

Hint, when the Spanish came ashore and asked the name of the country, the Maya could not understand them, but responded with: "Uiy-ki-takn" ie "listen to them, listen to how they talk." That got made into "Yucatan," but the takn part is obviously cognate to Danish and English words for talk.

25 posted on 01/09/2002 2:36:59 PM PST by crystalk
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