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Originally posted by pepsi78
reply to post by In nothing we trust
It was Vespuci Amerigo, your manuals are wrong, before him Erik The Red.
Originally posted by Ridhya
reply to post by pepsi78
I believe you mean his son, Leif, actually. Eirik was credited with discovering Greenland though he wasnt actually the first, there were a few others before him, when he was exiled from Iceland he sailed to where he was told others had spotted land.
Originally posted by Ridhya
reply to post by pepsi78
I believe you mean his son, Leif, actually. Eirik was credited with discovering Greenland though he wasnt actually the first, there were a few others before him, when he was exiled from Iceland he sailed to where he was told others had spotted land.
Originally posted by Ridhya
reply to post by In nothing we trust
Haha, this is why American public education is regarded as the worst in the western world.
Public schools, well, you really need some accurate textbooks!
Originally posted by mopusvindictus
So to say Columbus discovered America is pretty moronic on a lot of levels.
Originally posted by Watcher-In-The-Shadows
Reply to post by In nothing we trust
And textbooks are never wrong.... [/sarcasm]
Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of Greenland with three ships and a band of Norse to explore a newly discovered land that promised fabulous riches. Following the route that had been pioneered some seven years before by Leif Eriksson, Thorfinn sailed up Greenland’s coast, traversed the Davis Strait and turned south past Baffin Island to Newfoundland—and perhaps beyond. Snorri, the son of Thorfinn and his wife, Gudrid, is thought to be the first European baby born in North America.
Thorfinn and his band found their promised riches— game, fish, timber and pasture—and also encountered Native Americans, whom they denigrated as skraelings, or “wretched people.” Little wonder, then, that relations with the Natives steadily deteriorated. About three years after starting out, Thorfinn—along with his family and surviving crew—abandoned the North American settlement, perhaps in a hail of arrows. (Archaeologists have found arrowheads with the remains of buried Norse explorers.) After sailing to Greenland and then Norway, Thorfinn and his family settled in Iceland, Thorfinn’s childhood home.
The Norsemen also traveled to North America around A.D. 1000, some 500 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World.
In the 1960s archaeologists discovered and excavated the remains of a thousand-year-old Norse encampment at the northern tip of Newfoundland, Canada.