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If the original settlers were Norse, are the Azores the real Vinland?
by labster 5y ago
If the original settlers were Norse, are the Azores the real Vinland?
- rvense 5y agoWhat do you mean? I don't think there's any doubt that the Norse went to North America?
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoNo, because the sagas document meeting the indigenous people of Vinland.
- antupis 5y agoThis might be more fitting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Brendan%27s_Island https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Brendan%27s_Island
- ZanyProgrammer 5y agoNot every expedition has to match up with something historical/apocryphal. The hypothetical people who reached the Azores several hundreds of years earlier could very well just be the equivalent of historical randos.