Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
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Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#2Good, means we can get a season five of "Vikings"
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#3This comes to mind:
http://philippe.ameline.net/images/ScienceNewsCycle.png
Should have a dedicated "archaeological news" version.
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#4Good, means we can get a season five of "Vikings"
Ragnar dumps his Chinese girlfriend for Pocahontas. Rollo gets wind of these new adventures, immediately dumps his Parisian princess and swims to Tahiti for a life of Gauguin, further infuriating his inter-race-swingin bro. Floki giggles. Bjorn is even more bearded & pumped. There is still a diminishing side plot involving the British.
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#5I am more interested in whether there is any way of find a connection between Columbus and the Vikings. I've read stories before about how Columbus went to Norway and got info there about the Viking exploration. But what I've read just seemed like wild speculation then. Something more solid would have been nice.
The reason why that is relevant is that the Viking discovery of America is of no significance if it didn't help European discovery in any way. If the knowledge was completely lost then it had not influence on history. A failed settlement in Canada which nobody ever learned about makes no difference whether it happened or not.
From what we know thus far it caused no technology transfer to the native americans and there is no proof it advanced european discovery in any way.
I am Norwegian, so I kind of have a vested interest in seeing something that gives the Viking discovery some sort of purpose.
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#6Good, means we can get a season five of "Vikings"
Ragnar dumps his Chinese girlfriend for Pocahontas. Rollo gets wind of these new adventures, immediately dumps his Parisian princess and swims to Tahiti for a life of Gauguin, further infuriating his inter-race-swingin bro. Floki giggles. Bjorn is even more bearded & pumped. There is still a diminishing side plot involving the British.
man put a spoiler warning at least, sigh.....
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#7Hardly rewrite, but extend existing knowledge and confirm the veracity of the Sagas
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#8Some people think that the current history we have told is full of lies anyways.
There is a chronology written by Fomenko et al. that questions most of the official history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_%28Fomenko%29
E: I wonder how they came to the conclusion that it's 1000 years old...
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#9"The unearthing of a stone used in iron working on Newfoundland, hundreds of miles south from the only known Viking site in North America, suggests the Vikings may have traveled much further into the continent than previously thought."
Newfoundland is an island! I understand that there may be an implicit assumption that they most likely had to touch the continent before getting there but this isn't neither a fact (only a speculation) nor "much further into the continent".
Re: Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
#10so it's a git rebase history!