"First" 

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If the internet means anything to the astronauts that go to mars then the first word on mars is definitely going to be “first”.

If I learned something about history (especially in the history of Science), its that its not about doing something first. Its about being first to make people care about what you did.

As a Dane hearing him pronounce Leif as "leaf" really confused me for a moment 😄

I just wanted to tell you how great your series Rare Earth is. I've watched about 5 episodes a day the past week and half always been left reflecting on myself, the world, and how we can make it a better place at the end of each. Keep up the good work!

"Thanks coastline, you have rocks" 😂 😂

I truly hope this channel doesn't become some bought out corporate media outlet. Such an awesome channel and if you stick to these stories and shedding an unbias look at the world around us, this channel will blow beyond your wildest dreams. You are a great journalist.

I've been watching from home in St. John's since the beginning of the series so when I saw these two most recent videos of my little rock in the ocean I got very excited. I grew up in western Newfoundland and have visited L'anse aux Meadows several times. I love your style of narration and your ability to tell a nuanced and personal story instead of just taking cool drone shots and saying "we were here". Thank you, Evan and crew. We appreciate your work.

I'm currently studying in Trondheim, Norway. The exact same statue of Leif Ericson can be found in the harbour there.

"I would like you to think of the crew of Apollo 12" So Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Richard Gordon (Commander, LM Pilot, CM Pilot respectively). To be fair, I did have to look up Richard Gordan's first name, but I remember Alan Bean from the fact that he was an artist after leaving NASA and used some moon dust in all his paintings. He also was a part of the Skylab 3 Mission. Pete Conrad I remember from the listing for Gemini 5, though he was commander on Gemini 11 alongside Richard Gordon who was pilot. I also remember him from the Skylab 2 mission which is memorable for it's rescue of what was at the time a doomed station. Apollo 12 was the first mission to do a precision landing. It landed near Surveyor 3, a probe that had landed in what is now known as the "known sea" because of the many lander missions in the area. They also were the first mission to land on the moon with a colour camera, though it was pointed into the sun by Alan Bean, destroying it. This actually lead to very little coverage of the mission. The crew had taken an timer for the camera's shutter, so that they could take a picture of both of them on the moon with the surveyor probe, which would mess with the post mission photo analysis, but it was lost on the EVA and plan was never carried out. There is always someone who does not conform to the analogy. In this case it is me.

I absolutly adore this series, thank you so much for making it, every video really enriches my day, Evan you are really someone I love listen to and Francesco, your camerawork is as excellent as always (especially in the last video about the heart of canada) I don't know how many are involved in making this series, but I'm pretty sure they give their best and are excellent at their part. Since it's 9 o'clock here in austria, I wish you all a nice evening

By any chance did early Irish traditions affected the works of Tolkien? _Heaven was seen as a land across the western sea_

Unfortunately (or not) Greenland is getting relatively warm these days.

Interesting that St. Anthony is the name of that town. St. Anthony is Portugal's most famous saint. Born in Lisbon. The Portuguese were responsible for many names in the Maritmes. Portugal Cove, Bay of Fundy (Baía Funda), Fogo Island (Fogo means fire), Newfoundland and Labrador (Terra Nova e Lavrador), etc. The Portuguese in Canada have a joke... an early Portuguese explorer landed in Newfoundland, looked around and put up a sign that read CÁ NADA, which means Here Nothing, then buggered off. Canada also means a trail or dirt road in Portuguese. Vikings did their part, just think the Portuguese deserve some recognition too.

I was just researching about this place since your last video, and now you've covered it in detail. Thanks!

Love the series. I rarely comment hi

Please tell me you went up to Labrador, I've been dying to see someone cover Nunatsiavut for years, there's not a single good video online about it.

Been binging this channel for the past few days, it's awesome.

Anne and Helge stopped in to visit my parents in Northwest River when they were first trying to locate a possible Viking settlement. My father was a minister covering many settlements along the coast of Labrador at the time and they wanted to know if he was familiar with a type of terrain they were looking for. He told them he didn't know of any place along the Labrador coast that sounded like what they were looking for, but it sounded like maybe L'Anse aux Meadows was what they were looking for. My father was the son of a fisherman, born in a now all but abandoned outport called Little Brehat north of St Anthony. Before becoming a minister, he had fished with his father and uncle out of L"Anse aux Meadows. The small point of land near where the viking settlement was found is called Colbourne Point.

In BC we were taught a lot more in school about George Vancouver and the Russians in Alaska than about Vinland or Columbus. We are as far away from those first two points of contact as Japan is from us and the first contact of western north America in my view is a story all its own somewhat separate from the east.

I said i before, I'm saying it again. your channel is so underrated..

Loved the blurb at the end! Nice surprise!

Scraelings..... Those sagas are a good read. Brilliant video

Another great video from my favourite channel

Thanks you very much for your videos, they are really cool and interesting ;)

Well presented, thanks from Orlando

There are two really great storytellers on RU-vid. You and Tom Scott (because of him I found you). Thank you!

thanks for showing true history , still more to come to light that will show the world that the world was more interconnected than the history book tell us .People have always traveled the globe but are buried in the sand of time and forgotten

I love the historical storytelling. Wonder if there's any channels like this

Excellent video

The 'first' was like, 20,000 years before any Viking ever lived.

Norwegians have always been explorers. It's always great to read and see other Norwegians doing their part to rediscover our legacy. The Danes could never bury our history, but they certainly tried hard to claim ownership of it

this channel needs more views

RareEarth you should visit australia sometime, do a story on the first peoples

I find very engaging the way you narrate, your scripting style. I really like some of your videos! Will you ever make a video about how you structure and write your video blogs? Pleaseeee 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, and whatshisname who stayed in orbit. Those CM pilots are the least memorable ones of the lot.

I too enjoy your videos, very eye opening. You find tidbits of the past and turn them into a journey that we all can learn about. Question though about the First Man, wouldn't that be the natives who were in the Americas before anyone else? Where did they come from?

If only US history teachers would tell history unbiased as you do. Thank you for all you do! My 7 y.o. loves listening to your videos with me. He's becoming more and more interested in the TRUE past of this world!

>Thanks coastline, you have rocks Man I died laughing at that. Needed to write this comment in order to move on.

Great video

I used to work for an Italian (not real Italian, but Italian-American,) community center, and they had a plaque there commemorating Columbus as the first European to discover the New World. They had a little addendum on this Plaque that said while Vikings had come to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before Columbus, the fact that these Norsemen hadn't told anybody back home about this new territory utterly negated their claim to being the first Europeans to discover the Americas because somehow bragging is necessary for a discovery to be valid. I always shook my head at that little plaque and often wondered what kind of Wine they'd make out of those Sour Grapes concerning the Vikings.

THANKS COASTLINE, YOU HAVE ROCKS

The bones of Irish monks where found in Iceland by Vikings. The Vikings had said they the last monk die of some 70 years before they got to Iceland.

You really made me wanna visit those places. Also, good job traveling all over the places just to make your point :) Btw, did you change the title to not cause confusion with the new movie about Neil Armstrong?

i like the story of how when Europeans first sailed up to newfoundland and found basque fishermen who had been there for years. They just hadn't told anyone about their best fishing spots.

Hey, I live in St. Anthony! It startled me when you said the name. I should specify before there's any confusion: St. Anthony, Minnesota. Still cold, not that cold.

Good video

jeez, you guys are good at this shit

Also, the Portuguese were already fishing in the banks when Columbus landed. They may or may not have stopped over on Aqidneck to prep their catch at that time. They certainly were soon after the discovery.

When dropping first, always remember to leave a corpse

Some of these shots reminded me of What Remains of Edith Finch

"thanks coastline. you have rocks"

I love this show. I hate that I watched all of the content in a week

Hey Evan, i met your father yesterday at Ryerson!

That disclaimer at the end lol

Happy lief Ericksons day! Hinga dinga dergin!

Well I would say the native Americans where there first in north America... kinda obvious or?

Do a video on Oak Island, Nova Scotia...Please...do it for us, your faithful followers

Heyyyy my Grandma was from St. Anthony :)

Whoop! On time!

how did I never notice the credits before now, ive been watching this almost since the beginning holy shit

You know its Rare Earth when in the middle of a story about vikings recorded in a Canadian backwater town you get a picture of a boat(6:10) whose name is written in Basque.

I remember when this video was called "First Man"

On the west coast some of the First Nations had trade with Japan. One area even had a graveyard in the Japanese style

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The Vikings may have been the first Europeans to discover the new world but since they were never able to capitalize on the discovery, what difference does it make? The Wright Brothers may not have been the first to discover the secret to powered-heavier-than-air-flight, but they were the first to capitalize on it (if only briefly). In our world, it doesn't really matter if you discover something, it matters if you can make something of it.

Good video. I like it best that there is no certainty about any of it, especially as there were nomadic people from the Siberian steppes that were the first in the Americas prehistory. This isn't mere pedantry. It simply doesn't matter to me whether we are the chicken or the egg. They both make pretty good meals.

Doesn't the extension of the appalachian trail go all the way up there and end at the northern tip of the island?

The Vikings landing in America first is like in a thousand years, after WW3 and all historical records of the present time are lost, future humans landed on the Moon looking to colonize, only to find the sun-bleached flags, photos, and debris left behind by the Apollo Moon missions... Kinda crazy!

Can you help us learn about Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade and how it shaped Canada? As well as the struggle between Canada and America surrounding the fur trade?

Only mistake I see is that L'Anse Aux Meadows isn't a part of St.Anthony itself. L'Anse Aux Meadows is part of the actual town of L'Anse Aux Meadows. I'm from the former. Other than that, I can some of the points of view. If you save some guys off a coast, aren't they technically first? I hope when you were filming it wasn't too cold. Once October is over, snow pretty much starts falling every other day and once December settles in, we don't see green grass until June.

First! No? Eighteenth! *plants flag and stares imperiously at previous seventeen commenters*

Graças a vocês estou vendo isso.

Rare Earth=Poetry

First except for the Indigenous peoples that lived in this part of the world since the glaciers melted. Plus there's a lot more info out there about the Norse in terms of archaeology. Greenland wasn't as bad as we think. Norse were there for 500 years, developing the colonies into the premier exporter of ivory for medieval Europe and Inuit and Dorset groups lived in that part of the Arctic for centuries longer. It's only a difficult place to envision living if you have southern eyes. Part of the challenge for understanding how past peoples lived is to shift our perspective as best we can. Or talk to the folks that still live there and have infinitely more knowledge than what can be found in a book.

I'd be ashamed were my comment qualified upon the basis of order and not content I'd offered.

I was all impressed for a second that you pronounced Newfoundland correctly.... But then I remembered that you are Canadian. 😂

The credit cards are always awesome :D

It's like Neil Armstrong picked up some shipwrecked folks on the moon. :D

Pete Conrad! A short, compact balding wise cracking man, (much like me). But the third man on the moon.

These vikings had pretty poor immagination with their naming :D Newfoundland, Vinland, Finland - to my swedish ear that all sounds like old norse for "some new place we just found".

Alan Bean and Pete Conrad ?

The Danish/Swedish wars feels like Game of thrones. Under an ambush in Copenhagen Sweden lost 600+ soldiers who drown and Denmark 16 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Copenhagen_(1659) (More info if you look at Danish sites) I can imagine you walking on the Ice in Copenhagen telling that story.

Nossa eu amo isso que interessante.

the Rock and Newfoundlanders are just about the best part of Canada there is.

How awesome is it to travel around the globe and film documentaries about your voyage?

So what I've learnt is that it doesn't matter if you are the first unless you go around shouting to everyone that you were. The actual act of being first is only half the part, the rest is to tell everyone! :)

In Civil Engineering graduate school I once heard a colleague chastised for calling soil, "dirt". Soil is noble, dirt is dirty.

The world was warmer at that time

I would watch your videos if they were nothing but credits Sir, Well done!

So when you going to Greenland then?

Gotta take you to task on the notion that since the sagas were passed down orally for centuries before they were written down might mean they contain mistakes.... but nope, oral history has been shown to preserve geographic and geneaological information and more than print has and quite accurately too - whether with locating the site of Troy or as with one case I know of from one of the Edda's heroic lays, the site of a battle between where Atilla's sons died in Hungary, as told in Atlakvidha I think it is (dh=d-slash), Atlamal. The Vinland story and that of Leif ("lafe" by the way, not "leaf") have been the focus of the world's attention, but the reality is that Leif's colony and the Greenland colony were not the only voyagings told of in other sagas, of landings on yonder shores. Farley Mowat gets dissed for his "West-Viking" but I think that was a knee-jerk reaction from Canadians out to take him down who hadn't actually had any knowledge of the saga literature - or the landscape - that Mowat details out in that book . I haven't read "Far-Farers" which is about early pre-Norse mostly-Celtic voyages but I've read quite a bit of West-Viking when I had it,, and he tells more tales than just Ari Marson's having settled in a western land and living happily and wanting nothing to do with the Old World and its troubles and warring religions. "Great Ireland" is all too plausible, and so is the Norse evidence in Ungava which like Point Rosee has been debunked by archaeology, though I have disputes with what I've read about Payne River/Pamiok Island, though what I've read raises other considerations - about possible voyages from Scandinavia that had nothing to do with Iceland or Greenland and just bypassed them...- whether ones that got to Mexico and explain the story of red-bearded fair-haired blue-eyed gods from across the sea there and in Yucatan (same guy - Quetzalcoatl = Kukulcan) and in Peru (Viracocha, different guy) - but also explains Pamiok Island's European skull and also the lack of Christian elements from the possible Greenland connection. He (the skull in question) may not have had anything to do with Greenland - or left it because of Leif's wife forcing the colony to convert to Christianity... or was just a pagan exile from the religious persecutions in Norway and went straight to the New World beyond Greenland, knowing there was more lands to the west.... Same with the Isle of Newfoundland.... we know little about the Beothuk but we do know they had... red hair and blue eyes... and blue eyes are common also among the Montagnais/Innu. That there are no genetic traces remaining to determine if they may have been Celtic in origin is sad, as it might provide a basis for underscoring the story of Great Ireland.... and the idea of the Isles of the Blessed across the Western Sea. The Beothuk were called the Red Indians, the first to be called that, because they painted their bodies red...they were not dark-complexioned. Though Point Rosee's possible site turned out to be not-human bog iron, the stories around the Codroy River about the wreck of a longship appearing and disappearing in the sands of its bar are older than the Point Rosee dig.... and it fits the description of Hop just like the Miramachi did. But Hop wasn't assailed by the skraelings like Vinland was... if Hop was the Miramachi that's Mi'kmaq turf and one would hope there would be oral memory of the Norse presence...but the Glooscap story doesn't fit. Thing is, as you point out, Leif was not the first... he picked up others who were wrecked ....and if Mowat's West-Viking is as true as I think it is, there were lots of others. And Great Ireland, too, could have seen a population of druids fleeing the desecrations of the Isle of Wight and of Anglesey. And you've heard the story of Prince Henry Sinclair, I guess..... There's all kinds of other satellite-located sites in Newfoundland, including the Burin Peninsula and along the south coast; and myself I don't think L'Anse-aux-Meadows is even the Vinland Colony... it might even have nothing to do with Leif.....

"Music by BACKGROUND NOISES from TheCoastline.com (thanks coastline, you have rocks)" Well played.

They actually proved that Brendan could have theoretically made it with what he would have had.

How come I can't hold all these firsts!?

This series made me think of Laura Secord for some reason.

Vinland saga!

So, this is the place where the happenings of the first episode of American God took place!

Time for a story from Greenland then.

Come to Ireland next?

In 1976, Tim Severin and his crew successfully sailed across the North Atlantic in what they reckon is a historically accurate replica (Leather hulled curragh with a sail) of the boat St. Brendan used. The boat is on display in Craggaunowen in Co. Clare in Ireland - well worth a look if you're ever there. Here's some footage of the launch from Ireland's national broadcaster: www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0516/788736-5-men-in-leather-boat-to-cross-atlantic/ More here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wB2EsZhzVtE.html