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Also, the Norse had a somewhat different idea of what wine is; if the Norse did indeed talk about berries they could make wine from, then they probably meant cu

• cmrdporcupine 6y ago
  This might be true, but I also think this interpretation has often been made by Europeans or others who aren't aware of just how common wild grapes are in the eastern half of North America. Taking a boat or canoe up a river and you'd see thickets of them, climbing all over the trees. Morphologically they're pretty much identical to European vitis sylvestris/vinifera, just a droopier growth habit. It's only once you taste them that you'd notice a difference.
  • fogihujy 6y ago
    It's not the presence of grapes in North America that I'm thinking of, it's more that they're absent from the Nordics. Now, obviously there were Norse who'd encountered European Grapes on their travels/raids down south, but there really weren't growing any grapes up here back then. It's sad we'll never know for sure. For much of our history, the Nordic countries have been exceptionally bad at writing things down. :/