What Happened to the Vikings After Battling The Native Americans

As quickly as they came, they left. Stories of Vikings in North America tell of mysterious lands and foreign tribes known only as Skraelings. It was 1,000 AD. For nearly 12,000 years, the Americas had been cut off from Eurasia. Civilizations developed on each side without knowledge that the other existed. Nearly 500 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the Vikings journeyed to the Americas from Greenland and Iceland, possibly multiple times. And it wasn’t very peaceful.

Welcome back to Nutty History. Today, we’re examining the Viking fingerprints in North America, their clashes with the Native Americans, and why they disappeared almost as soon as they arrived.

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Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Intro to mid-roll ads
0:53 First Contact?
2:40 Thorvald and Thorfinn
4:36 Archaeologists Discover Remains of Viking Village
5:57 The Goddard Penny
7:08 The Vinland Sagas
8:53 Where Did All the Vikings Go?

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[NuttyProductionsOfficial]

Who do you think would have won in a battle, the brutal Vikings or the Native American warriors?

[Jason-gglm]

Pretty ridiculous that we live in a time where a disclaimer has to be made at the beginning of the video that the makers of this video do not condone actions that took place a 1000 years ago or so

[curtis]

I was thinking about being a Viking myself to battle people across different regions of Europe and America. Thank you for not supporting or condoning this because I was on my way.

[cloud_koi]

It’s sad that we need disclaimers like those when discussing history. It’s important that we learn from the past, not lock it out because of fragile feelings.

[Beckartwork]

Public schools don’t really teach history anymore so thanks for posting these videos so someone can learn something about history.

[celtickshatriya]

Imagine the skill and craftsmanship that went into building the long boats, to travel over huge distances in the wildest of oceans made of timber is a huge task in itself .

[demizer]

I believe they explored far more of North America than people will ever know. If a River could float their ships, they’d sail up it as far as they could.

[murphy]

I lived in L'Anse Aux Meadows for many years. Yes, the Vikings were there, the evidence is overwhelming! Yes, they explored father south because they found Butternut tree logs at the site but they only grow in New Brunswick which is over 1200km to the south. The place is barren, cold and has very harsh winters. My first thought when I visit this site is that there is no way they would want to stay here. A couple of days sailing south makes a huge difference in the landscape, forests, wild animals and weather.

[cathyclapp]

Thank you oh so much for posting this. I’ve been telling this to people for years and they are always shocked.

[jonathanmosher]

What many people don't understand is that viking Scandinavia and Iceland have relatively mild winters for how far north they are because of sea and wind currents. On the other hand, the north east section of N. America is absolutely brutal. The average low in Denmark is 30°f comparable to Tennessee and southern Appalachia.

[armoredsaint]

My history teacher in high school never had to apologize for teaching history. Why should you? History doesn't care about your feelings or anyone else's tell it like it is and don't apologize for it!

[MrPainseeker]

The place is called L'Anse Aux Meadows off the northern coast of the island of Newfoundland. It's a Canadian National Heritage site. They still have the original campsites and reconstructed ones next to the original. I've been there the whole place is breathtaking.

[coldlakealta]

I have been to the Norse site in our Province of Newfoundland. There isn't a lot to see, of course, but looking around you and contemplating what had been and what could have been was very intense - much like I felt on the Northern Scottish Isles off Inverness. You don't need to hold things or tour reconstructions to forge strong connections to those of the past.

[SvenEven]

In the year 1000 a norse lady of high birth reached Rome on her pilgrimage. She told a story that caught the interest of the clerics in Rome, and her story was written down and kept in their archives.
Centuries later her story was found by Scandinavian researchers. The lady related that she had lived on the western side of the big sea for 10 years. She had even born 3 children there, but due to the permanent unrest between the Vikings and the local people, her people had decided to move back home.
Another piece of interest is that in Iceland they once found a piece of rock that must have come from around todays New York.
And finally, where did the Norse Greenlanders find their timber for huses and ships? The guess is that they continued to fetch it from America after they had found the land.

[enderman_of_dm]

The idea that Vikings faced off against Native Americans really feels like something from what-if history, and yet it really happened. You always learn more when studying the past

[Frenchylikeshikes]

What is crazy though is that the Vikings arrived in North America because they wanted to, and they were able to go back, which means they understood where they were going.
Columbus on the other hand...we all know why in arrived in the Carribean...

[MedievaltoModern]

Until L'Anse Aux Meadows was discovered in 1960, many people thought the idea of Vikings reaching North America was a myth. I feel in time researchers will also discover additional areas of Viking settlement in North America, though it will take considerable effort to locate these places because of time, lost information and environmental degradation.

[glassMilk]

Very interesting video and stories. Thank you. My mother is a native American from South America. She said that the name their tribe had for the later known Europeans were ''Spirits of the water'' or ''Water spirits''. Because Europeans came from the water. Or ''Water ghosts''.

[eagleman]

It's not a huge stretch to realize that the Vikings visited Newfoundland on many occasions and there have been runes found plus reports of them having been in the central part of what is now the United States.

[blablableh]

As a Nordic person i have nothing but love for the natives of America. They fought and the Vikings lost and it was a good fight, this is how it goes.