Empires and Imperialism 2731
The culture was Norse. Iceland was a republican renegade state to the Norwegian monarchy; created as a consequence of the purges of Erik I "Bloodaxe" and the similar situation in Denmark. This schism can still lead to fistfights.
The two states of Norway, Denmark, and anonther four Things that hadn't made a country yet was pretty fluid. The fixed points were the trade posts and the legal Things; which for all practical purposes were the same place; and there were a dozen of them in the Norse culture around ad 1000.
Now we have evidence from archelogical finds in Newfoundland that some Norse lived there at least for a handful of winters. They were probably republican renegades from Iceland.
The Norse history is proven correct on all testable points.
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:25:59 -0500 in alt.folklore.computers, Scots rejected absolute monarchy, feudalism, and episcopalianism when English influenced kings tried to introduce them, and the...
Vinland was just too far with too little to prove for itself, despite the wild marketing of Erik the Red. There were people there shooting back as well; "SkrÌÏlingar" in Norse. It is a far more descriptive name than what Columbus gave, without being overly racist.
It is a distinct name from the Norse for Inuit.
Just the name "SkrÌÏlingar" is good proof that the Norse came in contact with the American Indians.
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:54:56 -0500, Donald Tees It is a historical fact that in Ireland under British rule, if one member of an Irish family converted to Anglicanism from Catholicism...
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