Canada's lost Vikings revealed

longknife · Dec 16, 2014

Seems there is now proof they beat old Christopher here by at least 500 years. But we all know there are others who claim they were far from the first to reach North Samerica. Read more @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

waltky · Apr 1, 2016

Vikings in the Americas...

New evidence of Viking life in America?
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 - The discovery that reveals they may have colonised America

A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled hundreds of miles further into North America than previously thought. It's well known that they reached the tip of the continent more than 1,000 years ago, but the full extent of their exploration has remained a mystery, writes historian Dan Snow. After a long hike across boggy ground and through thick pine forests, clutching pepper spray to protect against bear attacks, Sarah Parcak and her small team of archaeologists stood on an exposed, wind-blasted headland in North America.

Exhausted but happy, they had been led to Point Rosee in Newfoundland by the most high-tech weaponry in the modern archaeological arsenal - satellite data captured 383 miles (600km) above the Earth. But once here they were back to using trowels and brushes. I joined them to see how this powerful combination of new and old allowed them to make what could be a seismic discovery. We were here on the trail of one of the greatest maritime cultures of all time. We were here inspired by ancient chronicles which many have written off as fairy stories. We were here looking for Vikings.

In about 800AD Britain felt the fury of these men from the north. Portmahomack was one of Scotland's most prosperous and important communities. On a protected bay in Easter Ross, on the edge of the Highlands, it was well placed as a waypoint for merchants, travellers and pilgrims moving along the east coast. Recent excavations have given us a picture of a wealthy monastery at its heart. Scriptures were copied on to carefully prepared animal skin parchment by monks, skilled craftsmen created beautiful, jewel-encrusted religious ornaments, sculptors carved intricate Celtic crosses. Trade was the source of these riches, the sea brought wealth, but the sea also brought destruction.

Archaeologists have revealed that Portmahomack was suddenly and utterly destroyed. They found smashed fragments of sculptures mingled with the ashes of torched buildings. The settlement was wiped out. It is impossible to be certain but historians now think the most likely explanation is that it was attacked and looted. When I visited, a couple of months before the trip to Point Rosee, I held a piece of skull in my hand, presumably from a monk. It had been shattered by a mighty blow, the sword's blade left a deep gouge that makes the cause of death clear. Who were these men who slaughtered God's servants and annihilated one of the oldest Christian sites in Britain? Almost certainly they were men who cared nothing for the Christian God, men who came in ships from the north and west, men who sought gold: Vikings.

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Moi621 · Apr 2, 2016

Return Canada Territory to the Domain of Denmark.

I would imagine as the new location is on the southern tip of the land mass,
it would experience more Gulf Current influences favorable to fishing. Y'think?

Moi

r > g

Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.

Doug_yvr · Apr 3, 2016

longknife said: ↑

Seems there is now proof they beat old Christopher here by at least 500 years. But we all know there are others who claim they were far from the first to reach North Samerica. Read more @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
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L'Anse aux Meadows was one of the original 12 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Margot2 · Apr 3, 2016

Very cool.........

DennisTate · Apr 10, 2016

longknife said: ↑

Seems there is now proof they beat old Christopher here by at least 500 years. But we all know there are others who claim they were far from the first to reach North Samerica. Read more @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
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A pretty interesting case has been presented that sailors from the lost tribes of Israel may have went to South America around 950 B. C. E. or so.

http://beta.moshiach.com/index.php/item/ecuador

Intensified attention to the subject took place in the 17th century in England. It was all due to the writings of Manasseh Ben Israel, an Amsterdam Rabbi, who convinced Oliver Cromwell to allow the Jews to Return to England after their banishment from that country four centuries previously.

Manasseh was fully convinced of the authenticity of the Sambatyon legend. He wrote in his book that all think that the Ten Tribes dwelled beyond this Sabbatical river. He cites many authorities in support of his belief including the statement of Josephus that Titus himself had seen the river. Later on, after his meetings with a remarkable missionary, the Marrano Jew (Jew who was forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal), Antonio de Montezinus, he became fully convinced that the American Indians constituted some of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

Manasseh heard a very remarkable thing from Montezinus that in 1642 when Montezinus was deep into the mountainous wilderness of Ecuador, he met with four Indians who greeted him with "Shema Israel" which is the traditional creed of Israelites beginning with "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!" (Deuteronomy 6:4). He claimed that he spoke with them in Hebrew and claimed they were from the Lost Tribe of Reuben and Levi.
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