"New evidence of Viking life in America?" Topic

On the BBC link
A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled hundreds of miles further into North America than previously thought…

New Beeb series starts this Monday "The Vikings Uncovered"

The south end of Newfoundland is hundreds of miles inland?

Pepper spray to protect against bear attacks? Did they also wear silver bells?

I was expecting something in ….. Minnesota perhaps. To me "inland" does not mean "on the same island".

To me "inland" does not mean "on the same island".

It does to me. I live on an island.

I think the point was that for a seafaring people, moving down the coast without moving deep inland, then it's not as "interesting" as just getting in the Knorr or Longship and sailing down the coast. In any event the fact that a second Viking settlement on the same island closer to the North American continent is interesting and well worthy of deeper research.

It's not 'inland' because it's on the coast. Dover is not inland of Aberdeen. It's just farther south.

As a place for a way-station beyond the well-known settlement at Leifsbudir (L'anse Aux Meadows) at the northern tip of Newfoundland, this makes sense. Exploring the St. Lawrence region seems more than plausible. Setting up stones in Minnesota – less so!

There had to be Vikings in Minnesota. The Minnesota NFL team is named after them! So, like, QED.

The south end of Newfoundland is hundreds of miles inland?

Nobody said that except you. The article doesn't contain a single instance of the word "inland". The first paragraph does say "hundreds of miles further into North America" (quoted above by Huscarle), which is a perfectly accurate summary of the other information in the article, but that isn't the same as "inland".

- Ix

Did they move to Beverly Hills?

Its the 1st of April right?

If they made it through the rivers of Russia, then the river sytems of north america would have been childs play. The L'anse ao Medows site and this one are nothing more than the equivalent of boat repair yards or coast guard station to repair and recover from the voyage on reaching the continent. The real prize will be settlements futher south like Maine to New Brunswick.

We know of finds of artifacts all over North America. Usually loose odds and ends. Any major finds tend to have been dismissed out of hand. There used to be quite the school of German archeologists who once had a number of amazing finds. Again, most were dismissed rather too casually out of hand and out of jealousy.

Viking ship in Tennesee was what only two years ago.
Aug 19 2014 on World News daily.

Link file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/vikings%20in%20tennessee.htm

Its the 1st of April right?

From the link in the OP:
"In The Vikings Uncovered Dan Snow tracks their expansion west, first as raiders and then as settlers and traders. He travels through Britain, to Iceland, Greenland and Canada to see what could be the most westerly Viking settlement ever discovered. The programme will be on BBC One on Monday 4 April at 20:30."
link

So, no, it is genuine.

Link file:///C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Local/Temp/vikings%20in%20tennessee.htm

This link doesn't work.

The Viking ship in Tennessee was a story on a satirical website. The story is here: link
Snopes has the real gen on this story: link
Unfortunately, people have circulated the story as if it were true. Of course, I suppose it could all be a conspiracy to conceal the truth of America's Viking origins.

YouTube link

Greenland as just part of the sagas until discovered as it was a settlement in the 1600s.

The accounts of Vinland are just as numerous.

The Kennsington stone was from Minnesota.