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

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Allah's Peace to the Rose!!

Matthew Allen Newsome wrote:
> 
> 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
> There is a book out about this simulated voyage called, of all things, "The Brendan 
Voyage".  Thaelan, from Elvegast(one of the bibs), has a copy on his mantle(not the one 
he wears, the one above his fireplace).

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