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Thread #168245 Message #4064548
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
17-Jul-20 - 05:17 AM
Thread Name: This land is WHOSE land?
Subject: RE: This land is WHOSE land?
Well, if nothing else, Woody is surely a learning opportunity...
Joe: North America is a continent. The USA is a country. The “North American” census never happened. Different maths. Also, small point of order, British is not English.
MG: I had never heard of catholic norse...
Daaaaadun! Nooooooobody expects the Catholic NORSE!
For that “continental” feel: Garðar, Greenland to London = 2900km Garðar to Okemah, Oklahoma = 4500km
The “Norse colonies” were, at times, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Kalmariensic, Hanseatic, Basque and Acadian. Basques are French or Spanish, rock-paper-scissors. Acadians are French.
The Pagan Norse were just Iron Age 'White' Comanche with a side of capitalism. Those innocent looking Scots-Irish-Catholic pre-teen thralls were ticking mothers-in-law & Mothers Superior time bombs.
Greenland's royal family, such as it was, were famously split down the middle; the husbands Pagan; the wives Roman Catholic.