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

[Matthew Allen Newsome <mnewsome@warren-wilson.edu>]

Poster: Matthew Allen Newsome <mnewsome@warren-wilson.edu>

In addtion to this fascinating fact on Vikings, let me share a bit of 
knowledge with you.  About a year or so ago, I was watching a program on 
either the Learning Channel or the History Channel (I wish I had better 
documentation).  But the jist was, somewhere in Canada they had found 
some artifacts from around 500 AD that were NOT Native American, NOT 
Viking, and LOOKED Celtic.  Just so happens that there is a legend about 
St. Brendan sailing off the Western Coast of Ireland (about 500 AD), and 
having a wonderful adventure, and visiting a strange foreign land, etc., 
that was always taken as just a legend.  But these artifacts got people 
thinking, and a group of experimental archeiologists (archeologists who 
try and recreate the past), built a small ship similar to one that St. 
Brendan would have used, and followed the supposed route in the story.  
To make a long story short, they made it to N. America.  Whether'tis true 
or not is another matter, but it would be interesting.  I personally 
choose to beleive.
Aye,
Eogan

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Scott Silvers/James of Westmorland wrote:

> 
> Poster: Scott Silvers/James of Westmorland <ssilvers@liberty.uc.wlu.edu>
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Katherine Morse wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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
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