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

[Corun MacAnndra <corun@access.digex.net>]

Poster: Corun MacAnndra <corun@access.digex.net>

Vuong Manh wrote:
>
>They sure did -- their coins and tools have been found, though for quite
>a while it was fashionable to believe that the tales of Vinland and
>Markland were mere fables.  After all, they came from Eric the Red, and
>anybody who would call that big lump of ice off the coast of Canada "Green
>Land" had to have a casual attitude toward the truth.  

As I heard it, the Vikings landed on Iceland, found it pleasant enough, then
landed on Greenland (as yet unnamed) and went back to Iceland. When other
travelers came looking for a place to live, they were told the name of the
place they had landed was Iceland, "but there's this other place we call
Greenland just to the west. A really lovely place I hear." And so those
living in Iceland were left alone. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)

In service,
Corun

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