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Author Farley Mowat writes that even before the Vikings, North America was discovered and settled by Europeans originating from Orkney who reached Canada after
by gshubert17 11y ago
Author Farley Mowat writes that even before the Vikings, North America was discovered and settled by Europeans originating from Orkney who reached Canada after a generation-spanning migration that used Iceland and Greenland as 'stepping stones'. Mowat's ideas are controversial and have been accused of being over-speculative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farfarers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farfarers
- jbattle 11y agoAnother good one - speculation that proto-norse were involved in a copper trade network spanning from Michigan to North Africa, and left some runes (in a Moroccan script no less) in Ontario. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/bronze5.htm http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/bronze5.htm