The Vikings were there before Columbus? That’s hardly news for the rest of the world.
But ,of course, in the US this gets the “the biggest news, never ever heard before” treatment by the newscasts.
How can a whole country become so dumbed down?
How long till people will start protesting about the Vikings reaching America first is conspiracy made by the Antifa and BLM so that Columbus Day will be removed (unless it already is)?
Wait, are American news outlets trying to claim that the vikings traveling the ocean about 500 years before Columbus?
We’ve known since the time of the Sagas that Leif Eriksson wasn’t the first to see the land but was probably the first to go ashore, naming it Vinland. They even had a settlement going in 1000 AD.
We knew for a very long time that Columbus wasn’t the first European to reach the New World and that Scandinavians beat him by a couple hundred years. What’s news is just how early they actually did “discover” it.
The Basque used to regularly sail into the gulf of St Lawrence to hunt whales, they established many camps all along the river, hundreds of years before Christopher C. . When Jacques Cartier set sail to “Canada”, his chief navigator was Aramburu ( a Basque sailor), who was chosen because he had been in “Canada ” many times before.
The Vikings were there before Columbus? That’s hardly news for the rest of the world.
ReplyBut ,of course, in the US this gets the “the biggest news, never ever heard before” treatment by the newscasts.
How can a whole country become so dumbed down?
If we can get commercials like this to replace Colombus Day’s then I’m all for it.
ReplyNot news that the vikings made it to North America before Columbus
ReplyNew study!? We’ve known that for years!
ReplyThat’s not news, we knew that for years
ReplyThe Norse Mythology references are nice, but why do they always have those horned helmets
ReplyThe Irish beat them to it.
Look up St Brendan.
ReplyHow long till people will start protesting about the Vikings reaching America first is conspiracy made by the Antifa and BLM so that Columbus Day will be removed (unless it already is)?
ReplyI’ve learned about Leif Erikson and Erik the Red in school back in the nineties. The only new thing here is the date of the settlement.
ReplyWait, are American news outlets trying to claim that the vikings traveling the ocean about 500 years before Columbus?
ReplyWe’ve known since the time of the Sagas that Leif Eriksson wasn’t the first to see the land but was probably the first to go ashore, naming it Vinland. They even had a settlement going in 1000 AD.
We knew for a very long time that Columbus wasn’t the first European to reach the New World and that Scandinavians beat him by a couple hundred years. What’s news is just how early they actually did “discover” it.
ReplyYea. News. Just happened yesterday.
ReplyThe Basque used to regularly sail into the gulf of St Lawrence to hunt whales, they established many camps all along the river, hundreds of years before Christopher C. . When Jacques Cartier set sail to “Canada”, his chief navigator was Aramburu ( a Basque sailor), who was chosen because he had been in “Canada ” many times before.
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