Re: Happy New Zealand Day

SkippyPB wrote:

Those pesky Vikings! They are also credited with discovering North
America long before Christopher Columbus landed here. In fact there
is plenty of historical evidence that Eric the Red landed in Greenland
in 982 AD. He was outlawed from Iceland and exiled to a great land to
the north. Eric spent three years exploring the country where he and
his men marked sites for their future farms. He called it Greenland
and sailed with 25 ships to settle there. But in the 1400s, the
settlers left because it became too cold. There is some evidence and
speculation that they sailed south and discovered the rest of North
America, but nothing concrete. However, there is some archeological
evidence they may have gone to Newfoundland. Dr. Helge Ingstad and
his wife Anne Stine Ingstad discovered the remains of an 11th-Century
Norse community at L'anse Aux Meadows on the northern peninsula of
Newfoundland. They were working from a 16th-Century Icelandic map
showing part of North America.


That was during the last "global warming" period. Then it got cold again and
nobody left the house for a few hundred years.


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