How the Vikings Reached America

In this video, we take a look at how the Norse discovered and settled places like Greenland and "Vinland", now known to have been modern day Canada...

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[johncorkery]

I think the problem with trying to find evidence of Norse settlement is that the obvious places to settle along the North American coastline were probably also occupied by later settlers so that the remnants are buried beneath subsequent layers of occupation.

[yaboij]

Imagine if the Vikings were to have kept exploring more and more south until they reached mesoamerica and found civilizations like the maya

[Johnny-Thunder]

The Vikings were the first to land on Mars.

[antoinemercier]

Christopher Colombus is the type of dude who steals your joke but says it louder and better

[josiahhenson]

The native Americans in Greenland actually migrated across the artic from Alaska

[sprinklesandwrinkles]

Imagine spending months in a small boat with a bunch of vikings. "Är vi framme snart? "

[LurkerAnonymous]

I like the thing you did with the fog of war on the map of the known world, to accentuate the fact that they were basically venturing into the unknown.

[lifefordummies]

Hello, From Newfoundland, Canada! Probably due to my Irish heritage, I found out from ancestry dna test that I am 3% Norwegian :)

[Licmebalzutube]

I read a great story about a Welsh king that made it to America and ended up mixing with the natives and became the Mandon Indians that had blue eyes and legends that sounded like they were the same people. I dont know it was probably pure fiction but it's a cool story

[johhnydalton]

First of all. I am half Mig'Maw (Native American from New Brunswick). We have our own runic writing system said to be brought by a priest, but the elders talk of it being the writing of our ancestors. We are all a little bit taller then the other aboriginal groups around us and even some ELDERS have blue and green eyes and it is said that we had some of these features before the French arrived. Even our beliefs system has some taboos that fit with Norse traditions. Just funny to say they may have gone to NB...No WE DID and mingled with the ones here and it made us...

[Gorboduc]

I think it's important to note that Norse Greenland starts just after the Medieval Warm Period begins (950-ish), and starts its decline just after it ends (1300-ish, being finally abandoned 1408).

Other North American settlements follow similar dates, such as Cahokia for instance.

[collegeboy]

Norse exploration of North America is fascinating. I wish more sound evidence of their presence in what is now the U.S. would be discovered. Perhaps they actually did travel to the interior of America, but we need more concrete proof.

[Shitbird]

Damn the history behind Skyrim is extensive.

[Schiff]

You are the man, Justin. Pretty common to listen to your docs all throughout the day. Thank you much for all of your uploads!

[valhallabound]

They found a viking coin near Bath Maine back in the I've always believed they had a settlement there. It's a perfect harbor for ships even today, that's why the Navy has a base love your channel

[FalloutUrMum]

I once heard someone call the Greenland Colony unsuccessful because it disappeared. But I reminded them that the colony lasted about 500 years. The USA is about 200 years old

[arwenbrimhall]

It doesn’t change history it only adds to it

[fburwell]

It was a 2 day sail from Greenland. The vikings came to North America regularly for lumber and mining ore

[Shaden]

There is evidence of pollen showing that Concord grapes grew as far north as the Massachusetts / New Hampshire border, but there is no pollen evidencee that they grew any farther north than that. If they found grapes they had to reach at least the Gulf of Maine and Massachusetts Bay at least as far south as what is today Seavey Island between Maine and New Hampshire which is a short row from the Mass / NH border down the coast. There are many navigable rivers all along the New England coast. There is some scarse evidence that is disputed and reputed to be of Norse interaction. Recent discovery of a second settlement on Newfoundland Island on the southern tip proved that the viking settlement was producing and smelting iron locally for the first time in the Americas. No other group of people among the natives had this technology Only the Norse had it at this time and place in the Americas.

[nordicnostalgia]

In Norway the wildlings in GoT are subbed to Skræling