How the Vikings Reached America
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- In this video, we take a look at how the Norse discovered and settled places like Greenland and "Vinland", now known to have been modern day Canada...
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I think the problem with trying to find evidence of Norse settlement is that the obvious places to settle along the North American coastline were probably also occupied by later settlers so that the remnants are buried beneath subsequent layers of occupation.
A very good point! I hadn't considered that.
they already found the viking settlement of vinland....
Or accidently destroyed by early farmers who came to Canada centuries later.
that's a good point, l'anse aux meadows was already a town long before the settlement was discovered
that's also a reason why it has been very difficult to find early human remanants and old civilization, Jericó was a town that was just there as an old village but nothing special and then BOOM oldest city (known to the moment)
Imagine if the Vikings were to have kept exploring more and more south until they reached mesoamerica and found civilizations like the maya
You usually find something that is lost.
@@xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322Thanks for that historical hidden fact. Truly learn something new every single day, especially when it comes to the secret origins of world history.
im here for this fan-fic
The biggest issue that prevented the Vinland settlements from flourishing and surviving was a lack of people. There were already very few people living on Greenland and those were pretty much the only people the Vinland settlement could draw on. Unlike later European settlers they didn't have the backing/support of a centralised nation state and in the end there simply weren't enough of them to resist Native raids/aggression.
Probably did just didn't make it back to tell the tale
Hinga Dinga Durgen
Nice Spongebob reference
Happy Lief Erickson's day Patrick!
Hei Brodre
Bork bork bork
What does that mean?
The Vikings were the first to land on Mars.
Nah the Nazis did though nobody wants to hear that
@@lesgrossman96 you're right, nobody does.
Johnny Thunder Home run, pal. 👍
What if... Mars was the original homeland of the vikings and Earth was the planet that got invaded 0o0 Makes sense, doesn't it? The planet itself is named after a god of war. Midgard, the 4th realm, is the realm of humans. Mars is 4th planet from the sun. It all makes sense.
*Bruh... aliens*
Johnny Thunder plot twist
Christopher Colombus is the type of dude who steals your joke but says it louder and better
Sounds like Amy Schumer but the opposite by being still unfunny
One day I will get my revenge on Aaron Siegel. One day, one day
That assumes he knew the jokes of the person to begin with.
@@AudioArticuno and albert einstein
Sounds like Carlos Mencia, lol.
The native Americans in Greenland actually migrated across the artic from Alaska
New evidence suggests people have been in North America before the last ice age.
@@davidm9214 - your statement that "people have been in North America before the last ice age" is clearly not the case. The last Ice Age started over one hundred thousand years ago. There is no evidence of human occupation of the Americas that comes anywhere near being that long ago.
@@EdinburghFive yes you are right, oldest evidence is about 33,000 years old and double what the last theory was.
Hey@90z I look forward to hearing about any credible evidence that there were people in North America prior to the last Ice Age.
@90z Rather odd statement on your part. My very point is there is no evidence of human occupation of North America prior to the last Ice Age. Your contention is there was human occupation of North America before the Ice Age, thus the onus is on you to support your position with evidence.
“You have no enemies”
Imagine spending months in a small boat with a bunch of vikings. "Är vi framme snart? "
ett tjat till så vänder jag om båten
That's totally me.
I like the thing you did with the fog of war on the map of the known world, to accentuate the fact that they were basically venturing into the unknown.
Hello, From Newfoundland, Canada! Probably due to my Irish heritage, I found out from ancestry dna test that I am 3% Norwegian :)
Så bra ;) hello from me.
Everybody Has Viking Roots - Thaks to Vinland !
Thanks that is !
@@VikingNorway-pb5tm829 hallo, hvordan er deg? Eg heter gunar gunarsonson.
@@stonedape2406 Hei hvordan er det med deg? Jo takk bare bra ;) så hyggelig at du lurte på det. Håper du har det bra :)
I read a great story about a Welsh king that made it to America and ended up mixing with the natives and became the Mandon Indians that had blue eyes and legends that sounded like they were the same people. I dont know it was probably pure fiction but it's a cool story
Remnants of this civilisation are found in the Ohio river valley
Of Wales
@@axelespinoza29 ?
Prince Madoc in 1170
Actually it's not fiction.
First of all. I am half Mig'Maw (Native American from New Brunswick). We have our own runic writing system said to be brought by a priest, but the elders talk of it being the writing of our ancestors. We are all a little bit taller then the other aboriginal groups around us and even some ELDERS have blue and green eyes and it is said that we had some of these features before the French arrived. Even our beliefs system has some taboos that fit with Norse traditions. Just funny to say they may have gone to NB...No WE DID and mingled with the ones here and it made us...
@Troy Kell The Mi'kmaw were there looong before. They are not a European tribe. Possible mixing yes. But blue eyes is recessive and wouldn't express.
@Troy Kell Yes. And the blue eyes would come post colonization, not from the Vikings. There wasn't enough.
@Vercingetorix there's a lady in Africa with blue because of a eye condition " do not jump to conclusions "
If johnny's situation was because of viking somebody would have done the research because there's a reason the British where looking for a white tribe in Africa okay like even with bias being pro White scientist looking for lost white tribes oooooh found nothing and haven't found anything in 300 years still nothing nada.
Vikings?
British?
I think it's important to note that Norse Greenland starts just after the Medieval Warm Period begins (950-ish), and starts its decline just after it ends (1300-ish, being finally abandoned 1408).
Other North American settlements follow similar dates, such as Cahokia for instance.
Norse exploration of North America is fascinating. I wish more sound evidence of their presence in what is now the U.S. would be discovered. Perhaps they actually did travel to the interior of America, but we need more concrete proof.
Damn the history behind Skyrim is extensive.
Though sadly Skyrim barely has enough content.. they should put sea-faring/raiding/trading in there to make it better.
@Old Man Jenkins Lol I know that bro. SKyrim has gone. Oblivion was way better (and content-wise, I thought Morrowind had more). They should have put the afore-mentioned into Skyrim though back in the day. :)
Old Man Jenkins The game is 8 years old. 8 years after oblivion they weren't releasing dlc content they released skyrim. Of course they're not working on it, they're making ES6 and Starfield. Also, they did give it a whole remaster years on and gave it mod support to kinda pass the torch. And now we have mods like sea of ghosts and Skyblivion. Game isn't dead, game is bloody immortal at this point.
@@CharlesCowart-x2w You could write an expansion.
@@mattgunn5828 IKR, I would like for it to become multiplayer so you can form guilds on non-NPC players or have a WOW like server someday. I dream of a time when actors and actresses are hired to play NPCs to make games more immersive, and playing NPCs becomes an actual job you can do in VR from home.
You are the man, Justin. Pretty common to listen to your docs all throughout the day. Thank you much for all of your uploads!
They found a viking coin near Bath Maine back in the 60s..... I've always believed they had a settlement there. It's a perfect harbor for ships even today, that's why the Navy has a base there..... love your channel
Valhalla Bound not a base but a contracted shipyard
@@Belenus3080 Is that what it is?
I saw a navy ship there when I was a kid. I guess it got stuck in my head it was a navy base.😂 thanks for the help my friend👍🏻
I was born in Bath Maine. The shipyard it Bath Iron Works. Navy destroyers are built there on the kennebec river. I was thinking about the coin they found. I believe it was a little further up the coast.
@@thenarrator869 Thank God - They Found it !
The coin is thought to be a hoax, planted at the archaeological site. Oddly, the archaeological records for the dig are few and do not support a finding of the coin.
I once heard someone call the Greenland Colony unsuccessful because it disappeared. But I reminded them that the colony lasted about 500 years. The USA is about 200 years old
technically the colony did fail since it revolted and became independent
It doesn’t change history it only adds to it
It was a 2 day sail from Greenland. The vikings came to North America regularly for lumber and mining ore
from Greenland it would actually take the Vikings two to three weeks to sail no north America, I personally don't think that the Vikings found ore in America, I believe that the colony would be way more successful if they did, but I would really be exciting to see more research in the area, imagine if they found Norse DNA in the natives from that area
There is evidence of pollen showing that Concord grapes grew as far north as the Massachusetts / New Hampshire border, but there is no pollen evidencee that they grew any farther north than that. If they found grapes they had to reach at least the Gulf of Maine and Massachusetts Bay at least as far south as what is today Seavey Island between Maine and New Hampshire which is a short row from the Mass / NH border down the coast. There are many navigable rivers all along the New England coast. There is some scarse evidence that is disputed and reputed to be of Norse interaction. Recent discovery of a second settlement on Newfoundland Island on the southern tip proved that the viking settlement was producing and smelting iron locally for the first time in the Americas. No other group of people among the natives had this technology Only the Norse had it at this time and place in the Americas.
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And
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Also they might of reached Minnesota.
@Jonathan Williams It was grapes.
Making the blanket statement that Native Americans had no technology is not correct. Corrupt historians have covered up the abilities of North American natives throughout early United States history. This was used to subjugate and control them. Parroting these lies is still happening today.
The inca’s all the way south in Peru also mentioned meeting big, white, red haired men.
In Norway the wildlings in GoT are subbed to Skræling
We should instead celebrate the first English and Germans who came to north America since we have been most successful
@NauticTL Wow I didn't know all of this!
The English, norse and Germans are close cousins, we are all Germanic people.
Do you know anything about the Basques cod fishing off Newfoundland? There seems like there were ties to the Norse and to Columbus.
Solutreans?
No,Basques,they had been fishing cod off the grand banks before Columbus (they think), they might have been.It would make sense that fishermen would keep their grounds secret.
we will never know since we oly have records of them fishing there after the discovery of the Americas
@@theotterguy With the North Atlantic coasts subject to Northeaster storms, it makes sense to believe fishing boats would have been driven west. The forests were a source of supplies for repair of any ship.
@@PowersOfDarkness That may not actually be the case. There are records in the UK that seem to indicate fisherman sailing to Newfoundland decades prior to Columbus arriving in the Americas
I recommend to read vinland saga manga, its good. the anime adaptation starts juli 7th
Yeah, I was looking for this comment!!
Is it about vikings going to north america?
@@user-ok8yq6nc6x sorta
Magicjetsrock eventually
Tell us about your review on the historic anime Vinland Saga.
@Smoking_Phat_Blunts Who pissed in your cereal, dipshit? Why so mad? Anime or not, the Vinland saga is actually more historically accurate than “History” channels Vikings. Just take out the superhuman like strength some characters seem to have.
@@williamp2736 Village pilling scene were accurate. Vikings was more of hairstyle ad.
@Smoking_Phat_Blunts found the redditoid
@Smoking_Phat_Blunts The main character of the Vinland Saga is Thortinn Karlsefani which depicted the real life character, how about you go check that anime first and before saying obnoxious nonsense you psuedo-intelligent egotistical man child.
@Smoking_Phat_Blunts Hey youre alive! I thought youre dead but the characters in the anime were real even Canute the King of the Danish were real but some other plots of the anime werent even connected to real life but the manga artist did studied the Sagas of the Vikings, BUT did I mentioned them going to North America? I was talking about the characters and not the actual event.
It is sad but mostly the Vikings are remembered for their Warrior culture but they are so much more open trade routes discovered North America 500 years before Columbus and wonderful Craftsman shipbuilders and sailors the reason they ventured out was probably due to overpopulation and a very harsh climate so they wanted to discover new lands were there people could start a new life but make no mistake I have left unavailable Mark effect on history
We stil are, craftsman on boats osv.. ;)
I'm born and raised in Alaska and I can tell you that Inuit and Eskimo are different tribes
One of them fights Vikings on Iceland. Inuits?
I saw a carving in Chichen Itza in the Yucatan (southern Mexico), of a tall bearded, long nosed Norseman, standing among a row of the locals (lot shorter, rounded headed and beardless), on the side of the "Ball Court" there . The tour guide sad there is more, but I didnt bother. Viking/Norsemen scouts had made it into the Caribbeans and southern Mexico (Yucatan) a long time before Cortes and the Spaniards
Who here
Often imagines
Himself as a Viking ?
APE X ME!!!! And I imagine Lagartha as my companion!!!! :)
I imagine my self as the Knight's Templar
The idea of sailing around, seeing new lands, going on adventures... It sounds so fun! :)
Sith Lord mostly..
Yeah it sounds fun not having proper supplies that maximizes the risk of dying. I hope one does not wish to return to such difficult times, but rather appreciate the hardships your ancestors went through.
This is the basis of an alternate history I like to speculate on.
I think the Norse would likely worked out a deal with a local people who I believe were an Algonquin tribe. Vinland become a port for further Nordic trade Expedition into the st. Lawrence River. There wasn't much of a population pressure for Europeans to move at the time. The Algonquin and Ojibwa within the past 200 years had introduced to the three sisters (Corn, beans, Squad). I would imagine that they would introduce the vinlanders to them while being introduced to old world livestock ie cattle and horses in return. Most North America used the dog as a pack animal which is not as good for that as bovines or equines (horses and asses). Horses are known as tall dogs among some Plains people as it filled the same roles for the European. Contact with cattle would unknowingly give them a greater immunity to smallpox via exposure to cowpox.
I think within the first couple of decades you'd an epidemic spread across the Northeast trade routes likely killing 10-20% of the population of natives. However without Wars of the Conquistadors that brought famine and caused economic collapse , they're able to recover within a few decades from their first plague. Vinland which would have seen a decent influx of Norse Pagan immigrants wanting to avoid the church may start a campaign of exploration and expansion. If they have a decent relationship they may annex some neighboring lands either through marriage or vassalization kind of like the Aztecs. They would also made contact with the Mississippian culture inland.
I hope you can find the amazing Viking research of the Norwegian author Kåre Prytz, and his incredibly interesting research into the Norse discovery of North America. His work is some of the best I've seen. There are so much evidence that points to the vikings having sailed further south - all the way to grand bahamas and the tip of Florida - I mean - why wouldn't they? They were very well used to travelling south to France and Spain and even Sicily and Constantinople and would know full well that there would be other resources to catch, warmer, more berries or whatever. Kåre Prytz compares all the known copies of norse maps, or maps based on norse tales, and the museums of Denmark and Iceland contain a vast archive of icelandic writings that have not yet been transcribed, translated and interpreted by modern historians - what Prytz did was compare many of the more unknown stories - or rather not so famous stories - and shown how Vikings landing all the way to southern united states is really very plausible. His main book is called "Lykkelige Vinland" in Norwegian (Happy Vinland - directly translated) and his second main book "Westward Before Columbus", is even available on amazon
You’ll get there one day thorfin
The sagas were written centuries after the fact. Just because the sagas say it was a bamboozle doesn't mean it actually was. It may very well be a retroactive folk etymology for the name Greenland.
Also there are descriptions in the sagas that describe areas that appear to be NY Harbor, Delaware Bay and the Eastern Shore maybe even more of the Chesapeake Bay as places of at least exploration.
I don’t know old Norse but I know vin means wine in Swedish
And norwegian
Vinland means land of grapes
And Norway and Denmark..
Is told vin means wine and still insists the idea that it means land of grapes. That's Intelligence for you today folks. Parroting conventional wisdom despite what they see.
It would be cool if you could do a video of Amerigos Vespucci. A lot of people doesn't even know who he is, and that the Americas were named after him. I believe that as much detail that you put into your videos, it would be a good idea. That's just my opinion.
I want to go there! - Vikings.
Are you sure? Because they had slave trade and slavery was so bad, Vikings were inslaving eachother.
Cape Breton, we have a site here with not just viking but almost all tribes in the area , most likely a trading post . We have storys of them also .
People, Vinland is newfoundland, Canada. That is the only place on the content with concrete evidence of a Viking civilization and the Beothuck (a long gone Indian tribe) perfectly match the tribe the Vikings interacted with.
it was called greenland because of the aurora that would shine on the snow and make it appear all green
No. It's called Greenland because the northern part is and was green during summer.
I heard they called it Greenland to lure other cultures and traders to the settlement, even though it was very icy and sterile
@@fastertove I imagine Iceland must have been equally "green" in that same period, so maybe a bit of false promises? Would like to have seen pictures of it though, and also, would like to know how if trees even growed there at all. That's why they relied of Markland more and more. Lanse aux Meadows is just an outpost in Markland, not Vinland, Vinland is down the st. Lawrence river.
@@GhostInPajamas This is correct ! It was only to attract settlers ...
It is true that the climate at that time was milder
at the tip of Greenland,
however , in two or three hundred years , it was gone...
most, returning to Iceland.
Natives have words in their language that are are old Norse. I think they had a much larger impact than you suggested. More discoveries are waiting to be uncovered.. I seems there were larger settlements and influence especially further south where dogs only found in Denmark somehow made their way to South America. Also legends of red bearded white men ruling in South America looked at as gods coming on dragons (ships) to the land... caves with hundreds of runes carved into it in Bolivia..and the cloud people civilization that was a legend until they were found by the Spanish and later the remains by scientist . There is a lot of impact by the Norse it’s just covered up by big institutions like Smithsonian etc that have an agenda of erasing Europeans and their achievements to be PC
This is funny. Thank you
In Canada I learnt about Leif Erikson, but, my teacher indeed pronounce “Leif” as “Leaf” soooo..... that was interesting.
lol it's technically pronounced like a very short spoken "life"
@@omega1231 LOL me to .
I called him Eric the Leaf fan.
Thanks to TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS ?
In Reykjavík, Iceland, there is a statue of Leif Eriksson that a was gifted to Iceland by the U.S. in 1874 (Iceland's 1000th anniversary). The plaque on the pedestal of this statue reads, "To the Norse Discoverer of America." So we have long acknowledged that the Norse were in North America long, long before Columbus.
That's nice but they weren't the first to visit America...not even close.
@@Smokin_Phat_Dabs I'm open to any evidence you might have to the contrary.
@@robertklose2140 Continent, and just as of Lief Erikson was about to explore Newfoundland for the very first time, on the other side of the continent, the Polynesians was already doing trade with the West Coast Native Americans and may have already been doing so for as least a hundred years. The Polynesians themselves has already been sailing the open sea for about 1,300 years before Jesus Christ was ever born.
The Kinghts Templar has also visited America but this was After the Vikings but still well before Columbus. If you live anywhere in the States or use a VPN, look up the television series "America Unearthed" here on TH-cam. As scripted it is but the information is for real.
Can you do the first filipino in america in 1587 when they came to america through spanish galleon trade (they help the conquistador because they were really skillful at sea and some boats were made by the ancient kingdoms in the philippines) the spanish conquistador use the ancient filipino warriors to talk to the natives because they were very similar looking and the natives welcome the filipinos very openly but when the spanish came out on their ships they were speared which killed 1 filipino and 1 spanish dude some of the filipinos escape the spanish dudes and settles with the natives and some settles by themselves.
We amerikand got 60,000+ temples land n sea... the phillipines pull up on me like the spanish... but they aint like them spanish i assume... we amerikans not citizen or from a baby nation of 2k awesome temple hidden from whiteman and 200in africa giza which he found already...
Vikings also settled close to shore often....sea levels rise mixed with erosion and new settlements in the future and the rapid growth of the forest up here it would make it very hard to find anything
The Viking settlements were very high, not at the shore line.
The best example is Anse aux Meadows....Newfoudland, the Viking settlement.
It is high and they could see on both side of the ocean, the East and the West.
Also, could be defended a lot easier than at the sea level or shore.
Who's here after going to Vinland un AC Valhalla
I watched The Vinland Saga anime.
Not me
Christopher Columbus is the type of dude that steals your joke, but says it louder and better.
Say it louder though Chris. LOL
@@achillesmann1773 cheers buddy, at least somebody got the joke. All my love.
Just like you stole that comment
@@parceni4098 I know, that was the joke
Just louder. And now it's just an embarrassing echo.
In their day the Vikings conquered many lands, Russia, Jerusalem, Normandy, Britian but they generally adopted the local language and culture. One of the things to consider in the "what if" question is that the Vikings were not interested in spreading Norse culture.
I see you've includes the Normans there
data spell true there, the first arabic invasion was a Christian one. They killed our wifes and sons, set fire on our ”Holy” treeds and Told us we were sons of satan and dogs. I disslike christianity as much as islam. They sre from the same desert death religion. And people do not see that, how dum can people be
the vikings never conquered jerusalem genius unlless you are ntalking about the varangian guard but that was after the viking age.
LOL the danes gave 0 fucks about stopping the spread of christianity but keep revising history to suit your beliefs atheist ideologue dimwit. @data spell
LOL the first arabic invasion>? you mean the first crusades are we just ignoring the entire ummayyad caliphate the invasion of hungary albania georgia and anatolia?? do we have to farther back because the first invasion of the middle east was by the greeks and they were made aggressive by both cyrus the great of persia and darius the third. its odd how you fucks always ignore anything prior to the invasion of manzikert and then play the victim. @@galenbjorn443
Didn't pronounce "Íslendingasögur" too bad, coming from an Icelander
Growing up in a region of Québec called the Eastern Townships, I recall a news paper article mentioning the discovery of a rock in a farmer's field with runic inscription on it. Would it be possible that the Vikings ventured in the area ?...
Viracocha ,Ra also described as tall blonde,or redhaired. And the south american native tribe that was blomde or redhaired ,blue ,grey,green eyes also.
I once saw a genetic map of north American natives and there was a lot of north European DNA up through the st Lawrence River and the Great lakes. I also read an article about the similarities between the Mandan Sioux and the North European cultures.
I don't think that Columbus was in competition with the Vikings. They landed on completely different ends of the country, and it wasn't even settled as one country at the time of either landing. As far as bringing Christianity to America... This is exactly what Columbus did. He brought missionaries who converted thousands of Indians to Christianity. Remember, Catholicism was the only Christianity when the Vikings came (who were also Catholic) as Protestantism didn't even exist at the time of Columbus or the Vikings. Know your history before making claims. Columbus was a great man who is being attacked today.
I wouldn't necessarily say he was a great man, but no need to attack the deceased. It show's how weak these Social Justice Warriors are, they are even attacking J.R.R. Tolkien. Hopefully his family don't pander to them. Vikings where pagan, by the way.
they also landed centuries before that italian grease ball
a great man he fled war in his nation conned the queen of spain and is only famous because he got lucky.......how was he great hahahahah
@@dosran5786 We already knew that.
Columbus never set foot on the North American continent and was only once in South America ( probably in what is Venezuela today ) - most of his time in the region was spent on the islands of the Caribbean Sea.
I'm here due to Assassins creed Valhalla and Vinland mission
Good to know😂😂 barely made it to England
That's sad
@@j.jonahjameson5729 never really studied vikings a whole lot
@@j.jonahjameson5729 ok anime lover
I live in Newfoundland a.k.a. Vinland and the native people they met were most likely the Beothuk who had numbers in the thousands on the Island at their peak. Unfortunately we can never know for sure because the last of the Beothuk died in the 1800s after European settlers began to hunt them the Beothuk were known to have oral storytelling much like the Scandinavian Vikings and if only they had lived to tell these stories we could have some clarification on where these Vikings landed, but as far as the evidence shows I’m pretty sure they landed in Newfoundland
In Newfoundland the Norse could have met the Beothuk or Innu.
One note for you mate, as a British-English speaking Dane who also speaks Old Norse, just because you're rolling your R's doesn't mean you're saying the names in Old Norse.. You're rolling your R's well - but still maintaining the American accent. If you're working on it then good job 👍 keep on going. But if you're not, exaggerate the vowels more and do a bit of research on the Viking alphabet and how to pronounce the letters.
For example when you mentioned Erik the Red's name in Old Norse at 3:58, - "Eríkr" - was perfect, but - "Rauði" - was pretty shite no offence. The letter, "ð" is the equivalent of a voiced "th" and the "i" is a stressed "ee". So it should sound like, "Rowthee-", rather than what you said, "Rowdeh".
Just giving you a heads up cause you seem to be trying to speak Old Norse 👍.
I doubt the mans speaking old Norse or non or his viewers would know what the fuck he is saying.
This just in...Native Americans are human beings. They discovered the Americas.
i discovered a chinese restaurant downtown
discovery is based on perspective
I couldn't be more proud to be Swedish.
Ja men snart e sommeren over å då begynner langrenn sesongen😉
The existance of a western continent was proposed since the Late Antiquity by hellenist geographers and mathematicians such as Erastothenes who calculted the circumference of the Earth using the different shadows of produced by sunlight at Cyrenaica and Alexandria. He then concluded that to maintain Earth's balance, other continents would be needed (that's why we see a supposed Antarctica in maps before it's discovery). This idea was somewhat known by medieval scholars and after the mentioning of a heathen attack in that document, it's most likely that by the time, they knew that there was something in that side of world. People didn't believe Columbus would fall in a abysm where the sea ended, they had two hypothesis, the most likely is that he would fail to get to the East because the sea would kill him before he did unless Asia was bigger than it seemed (the majority of the investors and Columbus himself were counting on that) or he would stumble upon the legendary and hypothetical western land. That's why his voyage was so daring in the first place.
@raspoutin they suggested that there might be a continent, not that they knew of the one that was there
@raspoutin does it matter? even so the greeks havent shown any real proof they knew about america
I am native American "ojibwe" and I was told as a kid it was your basic Cultural differances that caused peace and conflict between early Native American's and the vikings. I forget when and where but also was told they "the vikings" made it more through the Americas then we know/remember.
Many say we were uncivilized and savages , that we ate ppl. That may have been true at what point but what nation wasn't doing something of the sort in ancient times? but any ways there was never no mention of us eating ppl in our oral history although there is a few stories of man eating giants with monstrous features or described the vikings but in our reality theyre called " Wendigo" but it's a creature not a person.
"In my aku voice" < -bad joke- lol
long ago many native American tribes/bands had gotten together and fought and killed or chased them away then sometime later the flood had happen raising the worlds water to where its at now. - now take as you will. Faith and religion is a very strong thing to some.
But Being superstitious was the norm for most ppl in those times as well, every nation/empire had 1 to dozens of God's or goddesses, we anishinabe/ojibwe believe everything has a spirit and is living and had always believed so. There is an undying amount of respect for nature , animals , the water and people. Not saying we were pacifist because there was obvious conflict that led the war or battle I am just saying there is always more to to think about if you dig deep enough and have an open mind to a certain point.
Savage was snust a word dusted by a group of people to deem a other group of people uncivilized .
Example christians called vikings savages to they called other people who where not christian savage to while murdering the shit out of them .
Actually, from a geographical point of view, all settlements in Iceland on the west half of the island (split from the Reykjanes peninsula to the east-north tip) are in North America. The island is split by the rift between the North American plate and the Eurasian plate.
@Smoking_Phat_Blunts - 'proofread' not 'proof-read'
They Did Not Discover America, The Native Americans Did, The End. .....
siberian nomadic tribes did, The End. .......
Dey vent Vest to Mineeesota.
Did they “wipe out” or intermingled with the native people? I’m just asking. Thanks for your feedback.
kudos for being one of the few people not from here who can pronounce newfoundland properly instead of saying 'new finland'
The reasons why the Vikings did not colonize North America in Vinland and stay there was the fault of one woman Freya leif's sister who in a rage killed a woman and her children for their colony which was deemable offense to be put to death therefore it put Leaf in a strange predicament because the law stated that if you killed a woman you were to be put to death and he would have had to put her to death and then be killed himself because he killed a woman therefore they went back saying that the people died on the voyage and they found nothing
Wtf?
I bet you’ll blow up. This things are what TH-cam’s missing
I hope so, thank you!
Christopher Columbus is the the type of dude who steals your joke but says it louder and better
Really fascinating part of history
Please put the names in the description. I can't make out the name of the person who FIRST discovered Greenland...
Fra år 985 AD til omtrent 1420 levde en norrøn bondebefolkning på Grønland som på sitt meste var på ca. 2500 mennesker. Then tok the inuitter over.. :)
I guess everybody forgot Pathfinder
Not me. Ghost was a cool character. Plus Russel Means was in it too. ^_^
The Glorious People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland will rise again!
Yes!!!!
>peoples republic
Fug off commie
communists dont like republics they like dictatorships... just look at the evidence also the US is a republic of the people dipshit and its not communist or at least it didnt start that way.@@whig3982
Glenn Krenz And It never will
@@apacifistmachinegunner669 its a very tense time right now this resurgence of communist sentiment is incredibly disturbing.
SKYRIM IS FOR THE NORDS!
Good One - Thank you.
They were not "vikings". Those who visited and settled America were Scandinavian farmers from Iceland and Greenland. Not all Scandinavians were vikings, it is not the same.
viking by the later end of the viking age was used often to mean sailor or trader, as it was used to describe people who werent raiders
You need to read “Collapse” by Jared Diamond to explain the downfall of European culture in Greenland due to the “the Little Ice Age”.
Agreed. A good book on the subject.
To bad the vikings didn't focus more on building an empire like UK did. Wonder how it would have been whit a viking empire.
Every native would have been killed but we get cool horned hats
North sea empire, included England under the rule of the Danish king Canut "Knut"
I thought the Norman's did pretty good at creating Russia, England, Normandy, Iceland, the Scandinavian nations, etc.. eventually interermarrying with the gauls and creating earldoms like the earl of orkney, present day Sinclair's who are hereditary grandmasters of freemasonry in Scotland
They made it to the Great Lakes, no question. It's all in the sagas.
Very good work
Actually spear point caches have been discovered from the time of the ice age that are identical to European spear point caches due to the same Flint knapped pointed on both continents. The Norse were not the first Europeans in America.
oh wow, similar stones, its almost like there are only so many ways you can bang two rocks together
@@magnusorn7313 actually when talking about Flint napping... There are only so many ways.
@@tomcrowell6697 that’s exactly what they said my dude.
@@bloodaonadeline8346 yeah, I commented before the said it in the vid.
Northern newfoundland had lots of food for vikings . Every river in area would be full of atlantic salmon. Not to mention the greak auk and cod for food
Absolutely
I would make one observation. The Native Americans first discovered America. The Vikings did discover America before Columbus. The NAs should be considered explorers too. But this was a great video. The Vikings were a brave and industrious people and deserve more recognition in history. Thanks.
Funny to think that the vikings, some of the best warriors and explorers with a thirst for bravery only matched by the size of their balls, end up being the first European canadians 😣
Kensington Stone has them as the first European Americans (Minnesota)
Canada have never lost a war and canadian generals have been very prestiegious in their carriers.
@@alecity4877 cant lose wars you havent been in
@@magnusorn7313 are you american? because you need to know how you lost in the war of 1812, the canadiands even burnt the white house down.
@@alecity4877
nice of you to assume where im from
awkward that you where wrong though
and yea. i already know yall made the white house white
either way i didnt say you had never been in a war, yall just havent been in many
i could see the greek boasting or the french but then you have canadians who have no real threats and only really join wars when they feel like lending a hand, of course they will be on the winning side
Wow, didn’t realize we had all these historians in the comments section. 🙄
You should do something on the mound builders of North America.
check "the ancient scandinavians of Ontario - 1700 B.C.E" in TH-cam.
btw everytime you say vinland it sounds like finland :D greets
Similar thing happened with English
Vixen used to be Fixen!
@@mr.osamabingaming2633 nice note! another one came to mind, how some places pronounce b as v, like barrio - varrio
Binland :)
God bless Newfoundland the most magnificent place on earth.
(Fossils of the oldest life forms also exist mistaken pt. Nfld)
Oh yeah I remember seeing a documentary on those. Aren't they the kind of mutual ancestor between plant and animal?
lolololol ive been to bnewfoundland once i wont be doing that again
May woden bless it, not Yahweh.
Vinland saga: Am I a joke to you?
Vinland Saga anime is damn awsome. Badass show btw.
Takk skal du ha!
bosto23 eyyy en norsk bror!
@@TheFyoshichannel eyyy!
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This is an English video
@@meginna8354 My comment was more relevant to the video then yours.
Vinland Vikings were faced with these problems: 1. It was expensive to colonized this region that had little resources. 2. They had troubles populating these lands. Very few women made they vovages across they cold seas to colonized with Thor's bearded men. 3. they were homesick. 4. The natives were wild beasts they could not tame.
That scenario would be highly rhetorical.
what scenario?
Natives and Vikings respected each other when they met in battle
They were no respect, only flying arrows.
There were no ''battles'',
mostly skirmishes, clashes, fights...
Mi'kmaqs fought in small group of combatants and hiding
( why get killed in a rows , on a battlefield...better to hide behind a tree !! )
and also on water, in their canoes...
Did the Vikings make it to Minnesota?
They found a 200lb Rune Stone but are not sure if it is fake.
Yes, i read that ;)
In this meeting, I’d like to talk about my book, Bronze Age America. It deals with the voyage made by a Scandinavian king, we think, about….1,700 years before Christ, from Scandinavia to the Saint Lawrence river way, to a point somewhere near where Toronto now stands. And there he established a trading settlement at now what is called Peterborough in Ontario. He brought cloth, apparently, from Europe to trade with the Algonquin Indians, and from them he obtained copper ingots….
They originated in the copper peninsula on the shores of Lake Superior. And we know they were mined by the Algonquins four to five thousand years ago. There are about five thousand vacant copper mines now left on the Copper Peninsula, and millions of pounds were removed from them by the Indians. And nobody could figure out where they’d gone.
Of course, this begs the question that if the Indians showed no use for copper themselves, why would they know to mine it in the first place? As Steven Collins has pointed out, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the ancient Israelite Phoenicians were the first to develop the massive copper mines on the shores of Lake Superior in about 2,000 B.C., and they may have used the local Indians as labor for the mines. These could indeed be part of legendary “King Solomon’s Mines”.
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Takk skal du ha,
for making this video for us to watch
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Can you imagine Vikings vs mesoamericans
What is that? ;)
the reason being vikings were raiders so they mainly built costal settlements for grouping up and to gather resources for internal insertions and raids so if they needed to abandon a place or failed raids they can resupply or group up and leave back and The Spanish on the other hand were Conquistadors in the full extend of the word ,they arrived and conquered , settled , built cities , stripped complete nations of their language and culture and all this was permanent .
The thing that gets me is Columbus getting the credit for discovering America when he didn't even set foot on the mainland of the continent. Either North or South America.
Columbus during his third and fourth voyages lands in South and Central America. So he did make it to the mainland of America. He did not land in North America. The term 'America' in the case of Columbus' discoveries is not meant as the quick form of reference for what we know as the USA today.
Contrary to popular belief, Greenland is in North America. Yes, it is an Island, but it is in North America like Cuba is an Island that is also in North America. I am a geographer and I am amazed how most Viking Historians don't know this. They write about how the Vikings left Greenland and moved to North America where they called the land Vinland. Well, Iceland is in Europe and Greenland is in North America. I don't know why this is not taught in American k-12 schools and colleges. I taught this fact when I used to teach Earth Science at my college.
@user-og5gg6ms1q • Consistent with popular belief you smell bad and have bad teeth.