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

[Dexter Guptill <dguptil@erols.com>]

Poster: Dexter Guptill <dguptil@erols.com>

At 08:44 AM 9/4/96 -0400, Alys wrote:
>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? 

>> 	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.

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

Saw a few years ago that there was evidence of Basque fishing villages Ca
14th-15th C... I think it was National Geographic.
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