Vinland: North America's Viking Colony

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Source/Further reading:
World History Encyclopedia, Vinland: www.worldhistory.org/Vinland/ 
Aeon Magazine, Viking trading in America: aeon.co/essays/did-indigenous...
BBC, History Extra Magazine, Vinland stories: www.historyextra.com/period/V...
Discovery, Vikings once called North America home: www.discovermagazine.com/plan...
History Extra, Vikings in America: www.historyextra.com/period/V...
History, Kensington Runestone: www.history.com/news/did-Viki...
CBC, failed 2016 dig for Hop: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfou...
Possible Baffin Island camp: translate.google.com/translat...
Biographics on Erik the Red: • Erik the Red: The Saga...

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@geographicstravel 2 года назад

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@Gangxisiyu 2 года назад

We actually got a confirmed date for the site. 1021. Exactly 1000 years ago. Dendrochronology of wood shavings at the site were able to match with a known solar flare. Able to pin the year down exactly.

@GalaxyVyper

Who else is watching this cause of Vinland Saga? 😂

@bloodmagiclord8253 2 года назад

Another interesting fact that you missed, Columbus actually travelled to Iceland and stayed for the winter in 1477. So it is entirely possible that he heard the stories of Vínland during this visit and that is what caused him to explore the Atlantic.

@thsxi Год назад

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@komm6668 2 года назад

Queue Vikings, Vinland Saga, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla references.

@Sungoku47 Год назад

It’s amazing how much research the creator/team of the manga Vinland saga do. The hut in thumbnail is exactly like an abandoned home from a previous explorer before the main character arrives in Vinland

@saitokun5304 2 года назад

There is an anime called Vinland Saga that is pretty good. If your into such things I would recommend it, even the english VO isn't terrible.

@HarrisonCSmith 2 года назад

Researchers also found a well preserved instruction pamphlet for a desk. In one of the Vinland colonies. The researchers tried to assemble the desk according to the instruction booklet but found it rather difficult. This lead the archeologists to conclude that it was of nordic origin.

@twocvbloke 2 года назад

Them Vikings certainly got about, makes Columbus look like a lazy so and so... :P

@SagesAce

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@AlphaHaze Год назад

"Far to the west, across the sea, there is a land called Vinland. It's warm and fertile. A land where neither slave traders or the fires of war can reach."

@WayToVibe 2 года назад

Some random Viking dude: "Ah, man, I lost my cloak pin."

@shivill2236 2 года назад

Well boys, seems like we're going on a saga here.

@mcstabba 2 года назад

The way Simon pronounces the nordic names cracks me up (I'm from Sweden). Anyway, good stuff.

@theboyoofoly 2 года назад

Both the "Graenlandinga saga" and the "Erik's saga" describe the journey to vinland as, first stopping at helluland (baffin island) then Markland (labrador) then they describe following the coast to what they initially think is a peninsula but after sailing around discovering it to be an island, which they called byarney (bear island), which lines up nicely with the placement of Newfoundland along the south coast of Labrador, the sagas then describe an island between two currents (straumsey) which lines up with Anticosti island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, it then describes a river flowing from a "great lake, and from there on to the sea" which in my opinion lines up with the region of the lower St. Lawrence, a region which historically has had naturally occurring grapes

@anarchyantz1564 2 года назад

Hearing Simon quoting A Full Metal Alchemist reference knowing he has never and will never watch them is hilarious! If this was Brain Blaze I can only imagine the ADHD ranting he would be doing at that point.

@blarfroer8066 2 года назад

Small correction: the did not find wild grapes, but most likely golden currants (Ribes aureum). Currants are still called Vinbär in Swedish and in the Alemannic dialect of German - Tyrker was a member of the Alamannic tribe - currants are still called Trübli, which translates to small grape.

@marcelostalker 2 года назад

Perfect, I got curious about Vinland while playing Assassin's Creed a few months back, and only remembered to actually look it up last week. To my dismay, there wasn't much from channels I watch and stuff, so this comes out as a treat.

@mikeyoung9810 2 года назад

I went to school, 6 7 and 8th grades in Vinland. Kansas. A mostly abandoned town that still had a school back in the 60's. It's gone now but yes I went to school in Vinland.