'Leif Erikson: The Viking Who Discovered America 500 Years Before Columbus' #history #facts

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[thefishfin-atic]

Leif was the first European person to step foot in NA by boat, others before him went on foot across the ice bridge, and now they seem to think they are somehow more entitled than anyone else who might have come here by plane or any other means. It's truly a strange society we've built up here, and sometimes I think the ways of the Vikings, where power and strength, and determination was what dictated entitlement, was the best way.

[baguda]

The Vikings had no use for Vinland, it was frozen and harsh. The people there were considerably marshal capable and had virtually zero wealth for the Vikings to plunder. The trip was too long and the land was too harsh to justify regularly returning to Vinland. Instead Europe sat open with defenseless stashes of wealth