BS: Possible Viking site found, New England

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 11:49 AM

Intrestin but not evidence that anybody much ever made it in Viking times is it? Thor Heyerdahl made it from South America to Easter Island. Thing is the Easter Islanders came from the east of Asia. I think he nearly made across the South Atlantic whilst founding Americans came the long way round from the Bearing straight didn't they?

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: Raggytash
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 10:59 AM

Not really Les. Tim Severin managed to make the distant Peckford Island on the Newfoundland coast by hopping up the various landfalls in a boat basically made from ox hide. Fascinating read by the way in his book "The Brendan Voyage"

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 10:32 AM

I was very excited when I first read about the Viking colony on Greenland - farms, villages, churches - for want of a better word European life. All collapsed under a series of bad winters - climate change?

It seems those Sagas where passed on through an oral tradition for 200+ years before being written down - about as reliable as the Old Testament as a road map of Palestine?

Will this lead to some undiscovered Viking settlements of some scale? Seems unlikely it ever happened doesn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: EBarnacle
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 08:29 AM

Jack, it depends on when the reading is taken. When England owned all of eastern North America, it might have. I did sort of stretch the definition, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 07:44 AM

Looks interesting. I saw it in this morning's Daily Telegraph.

I'll wait until tomorrow before deciding whether it was a genuine news story . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 06:49 AM

I've been to L'Anse aux Meadows. In summer. Don't forget your fly dope.

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: Jack Campin
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 03:56 AM

It's in Newfoundland. Does that count as New England?

Subject: RE: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 01:37 AM

View from space hints at a new Viking site in North America

interesting reading, thanks for the link

Subject: BS: Possible Viking site found, New England
From: EBarnacle
Date: 01 Apr 16 - 12:45 AM

As a result of satellite scanning, a site has been located that may have been a Viking site about 300 miles South of previously found sites.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/view-from-space-hints-at-a-new-viking-site-in-north-america/ar-BBrcjtM?li=BBnb7Kz

And don't say it's impossible because open boats or lapstrake boats can't cross oceans. They have.