Viking Expansion - Wine Land - #6
Added 2018-11-30 07:51:39 +0000 UTCDespite having the least amount of impact in the long term, the Norse settlements in North America are by far the most famous product of the Viking Expansion.
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A side note that I think is of some interest is just how wide the gap between viking and Native Americans is. Following migrations patterns of Homo Sapiens out of Africa and to the New World it's possible these two groups of people haven't shared a common ancestor or language in 40,000 years or more. Most of these people were settled into their lands before written language is even recorded, before Sumerian or Sanskrit. It's an incredibly jarring thing to realize just how difficult early communication had to have been especially for a smaller group that had no idea other people were even here.
Ryan Wojciechowski
2018-12-05 15:26:31 +0000 UTCThank you Ryan Wojo
Calvin McClory
2018-12-03 18:17:56 +0000 UTC<a href="https://becausegamesmatter.com/contact/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://becausegamesmatter.com/contact/</a> Follow that link to suggest anything to the EC crew!
Ryan Wojciechowski
2018-12-03 18:05:48 +0000 UTCNot an EH comment, EC comment. Is there a good place to send topic ideas to, or are they even welcome? The idea was for a comparison of dialogue in the witcher 3 vs skyrim vs mass effect vs fallout 4. In W3 your limited to what Geralt would do but get options, but in skyrim there is no player voice. How does this affect experience and cost, and does adding a voice sell more copies or sell less copy?
Calvin McClory
2018-12-03 18:00:44 +0000 UTCWait until you hear about how the Polynesians sailed to South america around 750 CE!
Hawkfrost
2018-12-02 19:14:10 +0000 UTCGood question, Ryan! The specific events come to us via a couple of different sagas that tell the same story, with differing details. For a long time people speculated whether any of this really occurred, then in 1960 archaeologists found a Viking settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland that dated to about the year 1000. However, as you'd expect, a lot of the specific details in the sagas are still up for debate—but it's what we have, so I ran with it.
Robert Rath
2018-12-01 14:24:29 +0000 UTCSo they found Vineland berry good?
Rossum
2018-11-30 20:54:16 +0000 UTCViking history is pretty well recorded, also they found the actual settlement sites in Labrador.
Veteran of the Mushroom Wars
2018-11-30 18:27:00 +0000 UTCSo what sources do we have to say that these things happened? Because this seems like a pretty big deal for someone to find America centuries before Columbus.
Ryan Wojciechowski
2018-11-30 18:18:59 +0000 UTCVikings vs Native Americans; sounds like a Deadliest Warrior episode
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-11-30 17:38:28 +0000 UTCThis is how Wednesday came to the new world in American Gods
Bell Deng
2018-11-30 11:54:28 +0000 UTCAlternate History Idea: what if the Residents of Greenland, after their Colony became unsustainable, Crossed over to Newfoundland and there formed a new Nation: Vinland?
Martin Verran
2018-11-30 10:00:10 +0000 UTC
