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Seems doubtful, simply because of the really, really small numbers of Norse that ever would have been in North America. Between the stories in the Sagas and th
by douche 11y ago
Seems doubtful, simply because of the really, really small numbers of Norse that ever would have been in North America. Between the stories in the Sagas and the size of L'Anse aux Meadows, I would bet that you could put the ceiling on the number of Scandinavians who set foot in Vinland before 1500 at about a thousand, being generous.
- rpledge 11y agoIt would be diffuclt to test as the Beothuk (the native people who lived on Newfoundland) sadly have been extinct for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beothuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beothuk
- hutzlibu 11y agoAh... thanks for the link, because ... >In 2010, a team of European researchers announced the discovery of a previously unknown mitochondrial DNA sequence in Iceland, which they further suggest may have New World origins. If the latter is true, one possible explanation for its appearance in modern Iceland would be from the capture and removal of a Native American woman, possibly a Beothuk