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New page: I am not certain if you grasped the nuance of Jeff Bolster's argument. Archaeological evidence for a Viking presence in North America, circa 1000 AD does exist, in Newfoundland. However, t...
I am not certain if you grasped the nuance of Jeff Bolster's argument. Archaeological evidence for a Viking presence in North America, circa 1000 AD does exist, in Newfoundland. However, there is no evidence for a Viking presence in New England, Minnesota, and Kansas. Part of the suspicion regrading claims of a pre-Columbian European presence goes back to the nineteenth century, when Scandinavian-American societies, citing Norse myth, claimed that Leif Erikson landed in North American centuries before Cristobal Colon (his proper name). Some individuals went so far as to plant archaeological forgeries in Minnesota and Kansas, that have come to be known as rune stones. They are large rocks with inscriptions made on them by metal tools. Close examination revealed them as modern fakes (the nineteenth century, BTW, saw many archaeological frauds. A number of "artifacts" of supposedly Etruscan origin surfaced in western Michigan in the 1890s).
So, while scholars like Julius E. Olson and Edward Gaylord Bourne did not accept that the Norse had landed in North America, they still included excerpts from the Vinland saga in their edited volume The Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, 985-1503 (Scribner's, 1906).
However, the controversy about a Norse presence was finally laid to rest in 1960, when artifacts of Scanadiavian orign, dating to about 1000 AD were discovered in Newfoundland.[http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/1137.html]
[http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/index_e.asp]
[http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/v_lanse.htm]
[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/vinland.html]
[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/4]--[[User:JBoley|JBoley]] 10:36, 3 August 2008 (EDT)
So, while scholars like Julius E. Olson and Edward Gaylord Bourne did not accept that the Norse had landed in North America, they still included excerpts from the Vinland saga in their edited volume The Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, 985-1503 (Scribner's, 1906).
However, the controversy about a Norse presence was finally laid to rest in 1960, when artifacts of Scanadiavian orign, dating to about 1000 AD were discovered in Newfoundland.[http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/1137.html]
[http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/index_e.asp]
[http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/v_lanse.htm]
[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/vinland.html]
[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/4]--[[User:JBoley|JBoley]] 10:36, 3 August 2008 (EDT)