Re: Event Flyer: A Viking question?????

["Sallie Montuori, aka Alys of Foxdale" <foxdale@wolfstar.com>]

Poster: "Sallie Montuori, aka Alys of Foxdale" <foxdale@wolfstar.com>

> Poster: Scott Silvers/James of Westmorland <ssilvers@liberty.uc.wlu.edu>
> 
> > Poster: kmorse@Bledsoe.Net (Katherine Morse)
> > 
> > >Someone once told me something about the Vikings discovering North America
> > way before Columbus. Is there any truth to this? Where is a good place to
> > start looking?
> > Katherine 
> > 
> 	Yes, this is true.  The Vikings had small colonies in North 
> America hundreds of years before Columbus.  You could probably find more 
> information in any encyclopedia or a good book on Viking history.
> 
> 			-James

The Vikings weren't the only ones.  Check out the Irish and the Welsh
also.

   Alys of Foxdale        | Vert, on a fess between three trees
foxdale@wolfstar.com      |     argent, a fox passant gules.

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