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There isn't much to go by here. I mean -- if they could embellish with large stone tablet buildings and "giants", we may reasonably surmise that the whole tale
by ezekiel68 5y ago
There isn't much to go by here. I mean -- if they could embellish with large stone tablet buildings and "giants", we may reasonably surmise that the whole tale is a stand-in for simply uncharted/unexplored territory. The Norse equivalent of "Here be dragons".
- mongol 5y agoI think the surprising news is that the norse explorations of North America was known in southern Europe. Until now I had thought it was a quite isolated event.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoI’m not sure of the timeline, but Vikings ships were known to sail all the way to Venice.
- sigmar 5y agoMarkland is the Norse name for the Americas (probably should be stated more clearly in the article). So yes the description could be completely imagined, but this is evidence that word of the continent was gossiped from the Norse cultures to Italy.