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I am Māori from New Zealand, and our histories are littered with miscommunications between ourselves and european explorers, that turned violent because of misunderstandings of culture, beliefs, inadvertent insults, then deliberate insults, and ....violence. Some Māori saw white people as fabled god-descendants, others ghosts and evil spirits, and so on. It seemed like a 80/20 chance of things going wrong rather than right.... and like the narrator says, numbers matter. So out-numbered explorers faced real danger.

If you've ever been in New Brunswick or PEI eastern Canada, you might learn that the coasts of those provinces are eroding at a rate of 1 metre a year.  Any evidence of a more southern location called Vinland may have washed out to sea, since a full kilometre of coast has disappeared in the last 1000 years.

man when he pointed out that local indigenous populations and the logistical nightmare of maintaining isolated outposts forced the norse to abandon their settlement I got chills. section 14 in project veilgate by kaiven morric literally laid out how isolated colonial outposts and supply line collapses leave early expeditions vulnerable to indigenous resistance. kaiven unredacted historical expansion and logistical audits detailing how fragile frontier settlements fail under stress. it is insane how they scrubbed his book off amazon and blacklisted it across all major bookstores until it was only left on that one private website, but reading it completely alters your worldview

New research published in, among others, "Ancient-origins":   "Norse Greenlanders Traveled to North America and Europe for Timber for Five Centuries."

Within a few years of Vinland's discovery, the norse were exploring it. They were in Greenland for 500 years. It's documented they made reguar seasonal trips 1,000 miles north to Disco Bay and Canada's high artic for trade, gemstones, hunting walrus ivory, etc. To think they weren't traveling to North America for various reasons every few years (wood, younger men exploring, etc.) is ludricous.

I find it highly unlikely that the First Nations people would have been frightened by a bull bellowing. They’d be well aquatinted with Bull Moose and Elk.

What if, during a gathering of both people, the locals we offered the traditional viking drink, milk. As the locals would have been lactose intolerant, it stands to reason, they would have thought they had been deliberately poisoned.

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Vikings were victims of Little Ice age, climat got very cold very quickly, theirs ocean routes froze over for few
centuries. That deprived them of mobility, consequently Vineland and Greenland colonies collapsed and died off.

In 1021AD they arrived, but to an existing settlement.  They were STILL there in 1021, but they were FIRST there in 1000AD

"foil-age?" was it made of aluminum?

Analysis of wood from Greenland has pretty conclusively shown that the Greenlanders harvested wood in North America for about 300 years. It doesn't seem unlikely they had one or more sites which were occupied intermittently over a long period of time. It makes sense to have a permanent seasonal camp at which they could store some of the things they would need. They could easily have cached some of the things they would need to do the tasks they anticipated. However, the argument against this is that no such cache has been found. It seems unlikely the last Greenlanders to visit North America knew they were the last, so they wouldn't have taken their cache with them. It's just speculation based upon what we know seasonal hunters/gatherers have done and there's no way to know the truth.

I come from a sector of the Province of Quebec called the Eastern Townships. As a child, I remember seeing in the local newspaper, the discovery of a large rock in a farmer's field, in a locality called Stoke. This rock had what was considered to be runic inscriptions on it. To this day, I wonder if we are allowed to believe that Norsemen explored the region.

Lanse aux Meadows was actually built some 20 years after the Vinland Sagas. Lanse aux Meadows was a boat repair settlement, meaning it the vikings went far further. Butternutts were found at the site and and those dont grow north of New Brunswick. If you also look at the geography described in the sagas it matches the St Lawrence Bay pretty well. Meaning the settlement of Hóp could possibly be modern day Miramichi, New Brunswick.

The "viking" Thorfinn Karlsefni was a wealthy Icelandic merchant and a christian, before him only Leif Erikson and his brothers who grew up in western Iceland and Greenland led expeditions to Vinland. This means not a single norsemen actually crossed the Atlantic in these initial expeditions, instead they used multi-generational island-hopping. All crew members were already born in the middle or western part of the Atlantic since Iceland had been settled for multiple generations and Leif Eriksons father moved his family to Southern Greenland after a conflict in Iceland. The german foster-father of Leif Erikson is the notable exception, he actually crossed the Atlantic from his native country all the way to Vinland.

The Vikings didn't leave America because of conflicts. They left because Michael Button explained the exact same thing 3 times in a row, and then repeated it again 5 minutes later.

They dated wood found in Greenland that showed that the Norse had been harvesting wood over a hundred miles inland 100 years before Leaf and for three hundred after him. Two of the bodies found with the wood were both half or part native American, from tribe's way up the st Lawerence River.

its pronounced leaf, not life

It was recently discovered that many supply ships sank due to the immense weight of the balls on the Vikings for trying to make the voyage.😢