How did the Vikings Reach America 500 years before Columbus?

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[@Guyhouston19]

Are you Canadian?

[@craigbradl4139]

How did they reach America, they took a CAB,OR A BUSS

[@AwoudeX]

the simple answer is they walked there, but there's more first they walked onto a ship, then they walked back and forth tending to the ship, then they walked off the ship, so they walked there!!!! xD

[@mynameisgladiator1933]

No one believes Columbus was the first to discover America. His discovery is important because he was the first by a European power that had the capability to take advantage of the said discovery.

[@grzegorzk5149]

discovery means leaving useful records for the rest of the world

[@lerneanlion]

One of everyone's favorite "what-if" topics: What if the Vikings actually established permanent settlements in North America. This one will always be one of my most favorite like ever. I know, this video did nothing about alternate history. But I just cannot helped but wanting to enjoy myself.

[@randolphtiangco6239]

Iceland is part of NA and Euro continents.

[@scottgalbraith7461]

What if people already inhabited North America?

[@randolphtiangco6239]

@@scottgalbraith7461 1. People already inhabited NA in the form of indigenous indians. 2. Europeans also permanently inhabited NA since at the very least 770 in Iceland since Iceland is part of NA.

[@scottgalbraith7461]

@@randolphtiangco6239 sarcasm

[@mddojo]

@@randolphtiangco6239 You know exactly what lerneanlion meant. Your attempts at "correcting" them are not helpful.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The Viking not only terrified Europe but discovered North America, Those boys were busy

[@TheRealForgetfulElephant]

They didn’t discover it though

[@josephhebert1785]

​@@TheRealForgetfulElephantif you find something that you and everybody you know doesn't know about, you can use the word discovered at that point

[@josephhebert1785]

​@@TheRealForgetfulElephantI'd advise you to look up the definition of the word "presentism"

[@xPrIsMx]

@@TheRealForgetfulElephant Did you even watch the video?

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

They are also great at ruling the land they conquered.

[@ActionBuchholtz]

I live in Newfoundland and have visited the L'Anse aux Meadows site. It's really amazing to see.

[@Terinasargeant]

And then just a few decades later King Harold Hardrada of Norway landed in Northumbria with Tostig Godwinson and a great viking army who were subsequently massacred by Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo Saxon King of England who himself was killed in the battle of Hastings by William The Conqueror the same year. History is Fascinating!

[@korsarz95]

It was in space of two weeks, first the battle of Stamford Bridge and then the battle of Hastings. Harold could have won the second battle as well.

[@Terinasargeant]

@@korsarz95 If you read up on how the battle of hastings went down Harold actually almost won there too. The problem started after some of his troops made the fatal mistake of deciding to break their own shield wall and charge after some of William's retreating troops. The Normans counterattacked and exploited the fresh gap in Saxon defenses which transpired into chaos leading to Harold's death and subsequent Anglo Saxon defeat. One mistake and the very face of history changed forever...

[@Juve_Fan2601]

learnt that with oversimplified

[@robertokandal]

ireland is the green land.you dicvoverd viking boats and artifacts there , portuguese deiscoverred america,, later they when there suing colombo navigator,, but they already knew everything it was jsut to make the discoveries official.

[@robinsinpost]

William The Conqueror was him self a descendent of a Viking. Rollo the Viking who was an earl of Normandy, was his great, great, great grandfather.

[@dukekelloway5328]

The actual site is very well documented and pretty definitive in it's evidence. It is certainly worth a visit by anyone interested in Norse travel.

[@jorgeo4483]

In basque settlements.

[@Gordon_86]

@@jorgeo4483 ?

[@PaulAlabaster]

I heard tell that Columbus' mentor studied navigation with the best in the business, the Scandinavians. In which case, he probably already knew about the Americas before he 'discovered' them.

[@josephknudsen2593]

Columbus actually acknowledges this. He points out the Vikings successfully doing what he is trying to do during his attempts to secure ships and funding. One thing Columbus gets wrong of course is that he thought the Vikings had found India, not America.

[@screambeyond]

That's totally false. In the times of Columbus the navigation affairs of Scandinavians were terribly rudimentary. Actually in the times of the Vikings they were very rudimentary too, but some ship got lost and arrived to that land (and the crew died a bit later there), that's it. All the rest is just Scandinavian chauvinistic inventions.

[@screambeyond]

@@josephknudsen2593 Oh, man. It's been very recently that they discovered some remains of a shipwrecked viking ship in America. Those vikings got lost in the sea, arrived to America and died there a bit afterwards. They didn't come back to inform that they reached some land, so there were not records at all of such trip. Please, don't make inventions

[@carstenhansen5757]

@@screambeyond Did you even see the video?

[@banger2998]

@@screambeyondthat’s untrue many made it back the proof for this is the sagas that were made about these journies that could not exist if they didn’t make it back. They didn’t have a writing system so it remained spoken stories until it was finally written down but at that point it was nothing more than Legends.

[@Gancrothor-II]

Proud Norwegian ❤ (even though Leif was Icelandic-Norwegian)

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

❤

[@tobor2481]

norge

[@EricRedbear]

@Sefrunson What part of Norway were you born?

[@trolltalwar]

Icelanders are norwegian. 99% of the norse who settled iceland came from norway

[@Gancrothor-II]

@@EricRedbear Bergen

[@fatherofhistory]

I'm a big fan of history, and this video is a great addition to my knowledge of the Vikings. I love how it combines archaeological evidence with historical records to paint a complete picture of their journey to America.

[@robertokandal]

in 1492, 1498 and 1502. colombo have been in americas Colombo was working for portugal so as vespucciu. vespucciu he "discovered " america later. vespucciu was a banker, after Columbus’s historic 1492 voyage, he assisted Columbus in preparing for future expeditions. It was rhe cartographer Martin Waldseemüller that did put later the name america in the map.becasue vespicciu as finatinating part of expeditions. Portugeuse know americas 100 years before these, cortez brother have been in canada,, around 1445 adn made a settlement there,, everything donne in secrecetacy..becasue fiscoveries were not offical yet. portugal started to discover all the world and others just fallowed them,, saying thata foreigner discivered sometnting is copmpletly trash,, wel they may have discoverd a river on the cosat of america, cause portuguese didnt mapped everything , the world was huige. Source: Its written in medieval books, and it is history. Green land is ireland.they found viking shgips and artifacts in green land, go there and check the museums.,.

[@mauriceogrady4447]

Imagine going to sea with no radio no radar and no engine. Terrifying

[@candymann86]

Sounds like freedome to me. Travel with the stars to guide you..

[@manfredgrieshaber8693]

The skandinavians used a kind af calcite. This mineral can be used as a polarizer so one can find the actual position of the sun even through clouds. In the sagas it is descibed as a sun stone. And for sailing across the northern atlantic the vikings used a special sun compass, a small wooden disc with a pin at its center and a certain arc painted on that disc. As long as the end of the shadow of the pin follows the arc you are on the correct latitude. The vikings had different sun compasses for each latitude even the had no idea of a modern latitude. It was just an expert knowlegde collected over several generations of sailors (the angel of the zenith is lower in the north than in the south).

[@ferrisreels66]

Carbon neutral warfare.

[@BrandonPack-w8p]

To me, exciting, invigorating!😂

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The Vikings were just built differently

[@oneshothunter9877]

Not really. Their ships were.

[@fromulus]

bUiLt difFeReNtLy

[@Alastair_]

@@oneshothunter9877 Also as a people, they really were. Bigger, stronger due to physical labour and rowing plus a high protein diet plus culturally, exploration was a large part of their identity.

[@wondermaid6452]

Look at them now !!!

[@oneshothunter9877]

@@Alastair_ Uhm, yes, to a certain degree you're probably right. They were taller than most of Europeans back then. But new(er) science has shown that they were just as worm ridden (ring worms and other parasites) as every other human in Europe. I hope you don't watch too much "Vikings" and think that's the way they were.

[@trevordavies2829]

I live in Canada. We’ve known this for a long time. You can visit a settlement in northern Newfoundland that features a smithy to make bog iron nails for fasteners.

[@henriklykkejensen8225]

I'm a Inuk from Nuuk, Nuuk Fiord area (the Vikings settlement Vesterbygd (the settlements of the west)). The stories about Northmen were told by my ancestors in generations. There were two areas with deep fiords in Greenland (Nuuk area and Qaqortoq area) where Nordboerne (the Northmen) / Qallunaatsiaat (the Vikings) settled. In the beginning. The Northmen were friendly. But it ended with that the Northmen began to kill innocent women, kids and elders. While the Inuit hunters were out for hunting. Later on the Inuit hunters killed the Vikings. For what they have done to Inuit. And Vikings were eraised from all over Greenland!

[@Kmr571-l8y]

I still don't get it , if Greenland was settled by Vikings , why do they look more like Russian siberians or Asians than Europeans

[@patrickhamilton5829]

@@Kmr571-l8y The last norse settlement on Greenland disappeared in the mid 15th century for unknown and mysterious reasons.

[@user-jf8wh6ei6b]

@@Kmr571-l8y only a part was colonized by the Vikings, the north was colonized by the Inuit people, and after a while they believe that the Vikings either died or returned to Europe due to the climate, diseases, plantation conditions and problems with hunting.

[@dillonhillier]

Inuk, you mean Skræling? lol

[@debroselle8877]

No European discovered anything. North America was already peopled. Look up blue fish cave in Yukon.

[@1q2w3e4r404]

One of the Indian tribes from that area not only has stories from their ancestors meeting the Vikings but also allied with them to defend themselves against other tribes. And you can still find DNA traces of Vikings in them today.

[@dariusalexandru9536]

sure,sure...

[@anaz5918]

There’s tribes in South America who mention “the cloud people “ that are described as very tall and blonde many people believe they might be talking about Vikings but who knows .

[@slake9727]

The natives of Newfoundland, the Beothuck, the natives that interacted with the vikings are extinct. Good story though.

[@trolltalwar]

​@@dariusalexandru9536you seem mad

[@josephpasquarella2123]

Yes it has been verified from resreach now that they inter bred

[@depekthegreat359]

Wow!!!Now only,I knew about this fascinating history and I fully appreciate the Vikings discovery of Canada and United States before Cristopher Columbus sir five hundred years ago,good friends!!!So,the legal discoverer was Leith Erikson sir's of Icelandic and Norwegian(Interracial since his mother was an Icelandic but his father was a Norwegian) and as an Interracial person and man and good human being,I am extremely so happy and proud to hear this,good friends!!!🙏🏻

[@muddyhotdog4103]

Iceland didn't have any indigenous people.. The people there were viking settlers as was probably his Mother, nothing interracial. When people say Columbus discovered America they mean he put it on the map for the rest of the world to know about and go to. Yes Vikings more than likely reached the Americas before him, but there's no "legally discovered" under some law and we have no idea what happened to them.

[@depekthegreat359]

@@muddyhotdog4103 Lol!!!If Iceland have no indegenous or Icelandic people,then why there is a country,good friend?Please go to his Wikipedia and you would read his early life where his father was a native Norwegian but his mother was a native Icelandic,so Interracial existed,good friend!!!The reason for them saying Cristopher Columbus sir discovered America,they either tarnished their history or did not even know about the history,good friend!!!Most of the historians failed to even state this as the real truth which was a total shambolic on theirs but thank goodness,this history channel's admin stated the fact accurately,good friend!!!🙏🏻

[@j2174]

When did the Vikings discover the US? These are places in Canada.

[@GHG_513]

@@j2174when did Columbus

[@j2174]

@@GHG_513 Colombia never set foot in the US either. 😉 The Vikings had settlements in a few parts of Canada. John Cabot discovered Canada in 1497.

[@jasonjimerson7046]

Columbus had a better PR guy! 😆

[@muddyhotdog4103]

And he actually put things on the map for others around the world to eventually go there.

[@holmbjerg]

Columbus had better funding and was backed by a country. Leif Ericson was just himself his family and a few comrades.

[@pintiliecatalin]

Lol, and that is why the continent is named after Amerigo Vespucci:)

[@oneshothunter9877]

@@pintiliecatalin Because Columbus didn't go further than the islands he "found".. Amerigo Vespucci harbored at the mainland. Todays North America.

[@pintiliecatalin]

@@oneshothunter9877 That is not actually the reason. The reason of the name is because Amerigo was the one that actually realised it was a new continent. And then a german cartographer used his name to mark the new continent. When Columbus reached Bahamas he thought that he was on an asian island off the coast of china.

[@James_Knott]

Of course, the Vikings continued on into the middle of the continent, where they became the Minnesota Vikings. 🙂 Actually, Greenland is part of North America, so that's when they actually discovered the continent.

[@robertklose2140]

Good point!

[@karlbmiles]

Iceland is torn by the famous rift between North America and Eurasia, Reykjavik being on the N. American side. So Lief Erikson was BORN in N. North America, give his mother credit for beating him to his greatest achievement.

[@AdvancedGamer-]

@@karlbmileslmao Iceland is more European though

[@realyoriginalchanel3218]

Well continents are not defined by tectonic plates. They are a constructs. And Greenland is widely considered Europe.

[@James_Knott]

@@realyoriginalchanel3218 I have never heard of Greenland being part of Europe. At the closest point, it's about 24 Km (15 miles) from Canada. When the Kennedy channel is frozen over, you can walk across.

[@muddyhotdog4103]

Columbus put the Americas on the map and introduced the "old world" to the "new world" for people on both sides of the east/west and started the trading and large migrations between the two worlds.

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

Columbus didn't even think he discovered a new continent, he thought he was in Asia, Amerigo Vespucci is the guy who proclaimed the new continents and got his name put on them. Also, colonisation and genocide of the native people is not a competition, and your comment gives me the feeling you like Columbus quite a bit. If you can say one thing about the Vikings, it's that they left and didn't return. Also, at least they knew they weren't in Asia, so they had better knowledge of the globe than Columbus.

[@muddyhotdog4103]

@@Gaelic-Spirit I get the feeling you cry a lot in comment sections.. Um, sure i guess? But yes, Vespucci went there why and after who again? Yup, history was a violent place, so were the natives, it is what it is.. And actually colonisation WAS competitive lol, and I doubt the Vikings had a clue where they were either (i feel you must like those Vikings, and the pillaging- murdering they did, not cool man jk ;)... Again, is what it is.. I couldn't care less about Columbus tbh, it was just a factual historical statement that seems to get lost on others. Now, go my triggered one -cry, cry even more about it while you make assumptions about others and virtue signal.. Gooo, the world needs you!

[@wondermaid6452]

​@@Gaelic-Spiritwhat the hell are you talking about. Columbus was going to India to get spices. The trip was paid for by Spain. Of course he quickly realized it was not India when he saw the place. Are you just joking or plain stupid

[@chandlerblachut3878]

@@Gaelic-Spirit everything you just said is wrong haha

[@j2174]

This is such an American perspective. No one outside of the US cares about Columbus.

[@KingdomOfItaly793]

Viking history is actually some of the best you can learn

[@Temtatork]

Both erickson and columbus didnt knew they discovered an entire new continent, columbus tought it was the indies and erickson probably tought it was more random nordic islands

[@ibiGamer]

maybe because they just didnt knew something else could exist?

[@ThenukSirimanna]

Ofc that's how it happened. You go to an unknown land then later ppl find out about it more. Still it's a discovery if you are the first person from another distant place to go there

[@wondermaid6452]

The indies ?? I hope you meant India. You know that country in Asia where Europeans where sourcing spices from

[@chandlerblachut3878]

@@wondermaid6452 he didn’t think he was in india, and that’s not where he was going. He was trying to get to the East Indies and found the West Indies. India wasn’t a word until England colonized the kingdoms that lived in modern day india in the 1800’s. The spice trade was located in the Dutch East Indies

[@jonayz8655]

That is not true, Columbus and everyone else knew since the third voyage (Columbus made 4 voyages) and many people was telling him since the second. I remind you that unlike the vikings, Columbus knew where he wanted to go (to the west, under parallel 30º north, which happens to be roughly the latitude of China), he took measurements, created navigation charts and maps of the coast of the American continent that were gradually increasing as the subsequent Spanish explorers were discovering more of the continent. Vikings never dared to loose sight of the coast longer than 2 or 3 days, they did coastal navigation mainly because didn't have the navigation knowledge and instruments necesarry to cross by the center a huge ocean, completely unknown for the mankind as Columbus did. It takes a lot of bravery and seamanship to do that.

[@jinoobaek]

Thanks!

[@DaVinciwithaphaser]

This is exactly the video I was looking for. Cool stuff.

[@Blackdiamondprod.]

0:13 yes. People who say that don’t know what “Discover” means. For instance, I just discovered this video.

[@Zorg_Picklehelm]

"But people discovered it before you therefor you didn’t discover it!!!” Yeah that’s kinda bullshit

[@Blackdiamondprod.]

@@Zorg_Picklehelm again, you are demonstrating that you don’t know what that word means.

[@raheemabdoul8480]

True ​@@Blackdiamondprod.

[@Blackdiamondprod.]

@@MWDeem it’s just plain, standard racism. Telling people that white people can’t experience racism made all of the racists think “Great! So I can spew hatred without consequences!”

[@TheCsel]

Thou must declare “first” in hither comment section to claim thou hast discovered this video.

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

[@Oldguy-k3t]

Asians were the first americans over the bering land bridge.

[@jiritichy7967]

Of course it was a discovery - for Europeans, who did not know about it. It has nothing to do with the fact that people already lived there. Was Australia discovered? While the discovery by Columbus became a general knowledge, the discovery of Ericson and it significance was lost.

[@ganymedehedgehog371]

Yeah I don’t like the idea that it was never a discovery. Penicillin was discovered in the 1920s and used in the 40s but no one argues it wasn’t a discovery because it’s naturally occurring.

[@paulingvar]

The three names of the lands are interesting. A province Halland in western Sweden has the same etymology as Helluland. And "mark " meaning forrest is still seen in places ( Denmark for instance). But I have another idea about Vinland. There are places in Norway and western Sweden where this means grass ( or meadow). Remember they were farmers! My theory is that this was forgotten when the sagas were written.

[@norsenomad]

Yes, I agree with you, as I find this most likely of all hypotheses. It is also a well supported hypothesis, by scholars. The leading proponent of this hypothesis is Helge Ingstad, himself. Helge Ingstad and his wife, Anne Stine, and their daughter Benedikte, are officially the archeologists who found and actually discovered the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows, during eight expeditions with excavations in the years 1961-1968. Ingstad agreed fully with the Swedish archaeologist Sven Söderberg's hypothesis about the interpretation of the 'vin' section of the 'Vinland' name, and tied it to the location by his archeological discovery. Ingstad also received support for the hypothesis from the Norwegian philologist Magnus Olsen, at the time. (Researchers believe that the flora description of "native wheat fields and vines" in the Saga of Eric the Red, which is not accurate by any means and contradicts the saga Flateyjarbók, is likely referring to findings in the St Lawrence bay, further south and of subsequent exploration). Ingstad writes about the etymology of 'vin' in his book Landet under Leidarstjernen (1959), translates to 'The land under the leadning star'. Etymology of vín: meadow, grassland, natural field, if I trace back to the dialect of western Norse, to Leiv Eiriksson's ancestral origin: the birth place of his father Eiríkr Rauði (Erik the Red), Leiv Eriksson's fater, in Western Norway, born 950, died ca 1003 Greenland. It originates even before the Viking Age, and many of the names are still in use. There are still many places in Norway with 'vin' in their names, some only in part, today: e.g. Vinje, Bruvin, Granvin in Voss, Vereide (Vineid), Økern (Økrvin) in Oslo, and not at least Bjørgvin (the city of Bergen, today, which was the capitol and royal seat of Norway, centuries ago). But it is not limited to only Norway, as 'vin' was a common word in both West Norse and East Norse languages. Sweden: e.g. Ven (and probably many more). 'Vin' is also used in place names (farms and fields) in the Orkneys (Orkn = seal, ey = island in Norse language), and Shetland (aka Hjaltland in Norse language), where Norse people from Western Norway colonized, bringing their dialects and vocabulary, in the 800s. And same about Helland and Markland: there are still a few places in Norway called Markland, and about 30 places named Helland here in Norway, including some name variations, according to Statens Kartverk. Sources: Helge Ingstad (1959), Schmidt & Gundersen (2016), and Statens Kartverk Stedsnavnregister (National register of place names).

[@paulingvar]

@@norsenomad Thank you !

[@norsenomad]

@@paulingvar You're welcome! Genuinely interesting subject for us, Scandinavians.

[@davidhughes8357]

Very good and very very interesting. Thank you all!!

[@robertokandal]

LIES...

[@charleshamilton9274]

Wouldn’t it be fitting if the first manned mission to Mars, or Alpha Centauri, or the Delta Quadrant be aboard a ship christened the ‘Leif Erikson?’

[@Zorg_Picklehelm]

Or even better, having Norwegian and Icelandic astronauts on board

[@mikebrianmurithi7331]

Now this is how a video about a controversial topic is made. Good job Knowledgia 🙌🙌 keep it up👏👏

[@kkinva68]

i'll save you the 11 minutes, they took a boat

[@DanielApologetics]

Awesome video. If one wonder how to pronounce "Leif" as we do in Scandinavia, its "L-AY-F" ⚒️

[@oneshothunter9877]

"Life" can do.

[@magnusnilsson9792]

I'd say Leyf, but certainly not Lief as pronounced in the video. ( English speakers need to learn the actual vowels, and no "W" is not a vowel in any other language.)

[@LegendsOfChippylandia]

Very intersting video, i like this sorta content!!

[@brokenbridge6316]

I like these sagas. They're quite interesting to listen too.

[@jorgeo4483]

That's why Irish monks wrote them centuries later, because they are as entertaining as they are false.

[@jonasjorgensen8759]

​@@jorgeo4483 get mad❤

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

I'm so glad that we have the Saga's, and that the true discovery of the Americas (by Europeans) is finally becoming more well known these days, along with it being proven beyond a doubt to be real.

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

The Sagas are real treasure trove.

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 They truly are one of the greatest records of the past we have, on par with the ancient epics of the Greeks, Romans. Thank the gods for it's and other record's preservation and the great people who preserved them.

[@screambeyond]

Dude, you don't seem to be aware that the saga's are fictional, plus the hilarious interpretations that Scandinavian nationalists give of them (like in the video) are even more hilarious

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

@@screambeyond They are mythical retellings of real events, many legends and myths that were thought to be complete fiction- and works of historical "fiction" have been proven to be true and based on real events- much like movies based on real events, aggrandizing the truth by exaggerating and seasoning the stories with magical elements- The Saga's are real, as real as any other history book from the pre-modern era.

[@HamBeglin-rj2vl]

@@screambeyond the sagas arent fictional, the bible is more fictional

[@olerasmussen72]

I am Danish, my ancestors, the funny thing is that a viking chief's wife who was with her husband in America, she later became a Christian, traveled to Rome, and there she told the Pope everything she had experienced in America, all this happened before Columbus, the pope (church) and the woman have certainly not been able to place the area as a new undiscovered contingent, she has not been able to point to a map, I don't think Greenland was on a map either, the Vikings were very secretive about the countries they discovered it is also said that the Spanish found a Native American tribe who worshiped a man on a cross-like object

[@richardcheek2432]

Columbus is not credited with "discovering" America simply because he set foot on our land, but because he developed the astronomical headings and longitudes to return to the Americas. And more followed after him developing more accurate and detailed maps and charts.

[@screambeyond]

True, but that is not in the agenda of all these Scandinavian hyper nationalists.

[@GHST995]

Great vid!

[@novenlatigo8207]

So this is the real Vinland saga?

[@EdenBailey-jr7ix]

History is the most important aspect of every nation's culture. By watching these videos, we can understand where we came from and where we are going.

[@Blueft.Gensw21x]

This gives a Vinland Saga vibe

[@markwillies7666]

Well for the Vikings being around 500 years before Columbus rocked up certainly helped.

[@blairpenny1526]

Saying they didnt discover the continent is kind of like saying no onw discovered gravity because it always existed

[@Zorg_Picklehelm]

"But people discovered it before you!! Therefor you didn’t discovered it!!!" Yeah it’s kinda bullshit, especially because Christopher Columbus never even set foot in North America

[@JohnChristenNizzaDiCorsi]

They didn't tell anybody though.

[@JohnChristenNizzaDiCorsi]

If you discovered gravity and kept it to yourself? I don't know.

[@JohnChristenNizzaDiCorsi]

It was recorded in their traditions but they did not directly tell other Europeans what they found. I always thought that was admirable. They knew what was here and who was here and specifically did not lead other Europeans to it.

[@JeffHynes]

Their findings there are amazing. The Viking houses is cool to see in person in Newfoundland.

[@Gloriaimperial1]

The Vikings' voyages to America were jumps of frogs that lasted 130 years, of island to island. It is a merit, anyway, because the Viking ships entered the Ocean. The Greeks and Romans crossed the entire Mediterranean 1000 years before. The Vikings went to America to hunt seals. Christopher Columbus and spanish fleet changed the world forever in 1492. 1492 is the most important event in history.

[@subboid]

leapfrogs

[@slake9727]

They went to Canada, not America.

[@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat]

They always show the Viking voyages on a flat map. If you look at a globe from the north pole, it's pretty much a straight line from Scandinavia to Iceland, Greenland, then Vinland.

[@ramonlazo2798]

@@slake9727it’s part of North America. The whole continent is “America”

[@riccarrasquilla379]

good stuff. thanks

[@patfleming3835]

Brendan the navigator got there long before the Vikings sailing from Ireland. Columbus visited Galway to examine his log before his own voyage. But the Irish didn’t think it was a big deal and let others have all the glory 🙂

[@jorgeo4483]

Hahahahahahaha

[@Simonj2109]

I'm gonna call Bull 💩on this one.😅

[@ecamp6360]

St. Brendan may have been shipwrecked here, but the Irish do not shut up about it. Nor do the Welsh stop talking about their guy.

[@Not_today_broooo]

The 9-12 minute videos are great!!!!! ❤😅

[@silurusdominus]

Yes it can be called discovery, because from the viewpoint of the europeans it was not known before they discovered it. Simple, logical.

[@Eros05-u2o]

What are the sources? You forgot to include them in the description.

[@a.r.h9919]

If only trading of domestic animals like horses, sheep and pigs went on alongside some metallurgy and managed to spread more maybe the natives would have had some better results for the future

[@saladmcjones7798]

@a.r.h9919 Unless the Vikings were also trading vaccines for smallpox and measles, I don't think that stuff would have made much of a difference. European settlers met a much weaker resistance by the locals not because of a technology imbalance, but because disease had already ravaged the continents, killing somewhere between 50-90% of the population.

[@GHG_513]

@@saladmcjones7798this is what lots of people don’t understand or know

[@saladmcjones7798]

@@User876-t8t Yup. Had it not been for newly introduced diseases, the Native Americans could have put up a much stronger resistance which surely would have changed our world history.

[@bcoutissimo]

The Admiral of the Indies was Don Cristobal Christopher Columbus is someone else.He was One of the best Portuguese spies working in Spain. He did his work so well that 2 yrs after the first voyage, Tordesilhas treaty was signed, giving Brazil, the African trade and the Indian spice route to Portugal.

[@fastnbulbouss]

The Basque whale hunters were fishing in the St Lawrence river hundreds of years before Colomb. They even established camps all along the river. Jacques Cartier head navigator was Basque, named Aramburu.

[@jonayz8655]

What evidence have you got of that? Because if you have none, that is just a tale, a legend, same as the sagas.

[@fastnbulbouss]

@@jonayz8655 History books, Spent my life reading them, and if you do the same, you'll find out. Read about the Basque whale hunting in the St Lawrence river, then read about Jacques Cartier and the name and occupation of his crew. All of this is recorded.

[@carlnelson697]

Columbus was lost and called aboriginal people Indians because he thought he was in India. Unfortunately this mistake sticks to them to many things to this day ie Indian summer, Indian people etc.

[@jonayz8655]

@@fastnbulbouss I know about that tale.because it is just that a tale. A book which tells fairy tale about the past isnt necesarily a history book. Nowadays is fashionable to demerit Columbus discovery without providing any evidence. Why didn't the Basques settle in America then? What a nonesense....

[@jonayz8655]

@@carlnelson697 Columbus wasn't lost, he just thought that hehad arrived to Asia, because that was the aim of tje voyage, but since the third voyage he knew he was in a new continent. It is not her fault that the.next generations kept on using the word indian, which isnot an insult, by the way. When you have registered exactly your position in the globe latitide plus longitude and even haveapped the place it cannot be said that you were «lost»

[@therealfestus2472]

Vikings got their asses beaten off by us .my gramps used to tell me stories like his ancestor killing 10 huscarls all by himself simply with a stone tomahawk

[@VidarSaeberg]

ROFL

[@guzelataroach4450]

Lmao

[@1gbayfisher]

Your gramps was a lier...lol

[@Orgil.]

vinland saga moment

[@darksnytern]

Proud to be a Norwegian Viking❤

[@armandotalampas4800]

In the Canadian historical drama "Vikings", Floki is the bold Dane who ventured first to Iceland then to Greenland

[@Dystopia1111]

'Vikings' was not good history, but it was still pretty good entertainment. Good acting and the soundtrack is 1 of the best I've ever heard on a TV series.

[@IvoryTrance]

He was Norweigen in the show, not a Dane lol, but yeah he went to Iceland first, but it was Kjetill Flatnose who remained in Greenland

[@VidarSaeberg]

Flóki was norwegian and never went to Greenland, the real Flóki that is. He named Iceland, went back to Norway and later moved to Iceland again

[@columbannon9134]

The Vikings only went to America because of early Irish settlers in Iceland in the late 900s. The Irish monks were the first people on the Faroe islands in which the Irish called it Sheep islands and continue to Iceland then to St John's bay in Canada. When the Vikings arrived some time later on Iceland , they had discovered people there ( Irish settlers) and these people told the Vikings about the land in the West. It is believe that in an old Norse language they name part of the new land New Ireland. When Columbus wanted to go to this land in the West, he went to Galway in Ireland to find out about the travel root, but he didn't want to do this round trip and dicided to go on a straight root which took so long that he thought he had missed it and had traveled to India, Which then became the West Indies.

[@ElDubz420]

How can anyone possibly discover somewhere people already live? 🤔

[@fastertove]

Because it was unknown to them at the time.

[@frankv7068]

@@fastertove Unknown to the people living here already 😂🤣 I swear Europeans think they are the only “humans” on earth lmfao!

[@screambeyond]

What you say is a very woke cry that many people do nowadays. Man, the concept discovering implies letting the rest of the world know about something that nobody knew. According to you, and the legions who think like you, scientists could not say that they discovered a new star because that star was already there. Please, let's be mature.

[@robertokandal]

all indians were asiatic

[@robertokandal]

Its the west culture,, civilization discover others...

[@dbsti3006]

Vikings discovered North North America. At the time, many did not know that the Southern portion of North America and Central America even existed until Columbus's time. Both discovered different portions of America at different times. Of course the Scandinavians showed up first, but to a different portion of "America" at the time.

[@janzethsacmar6309]

Vinland saga brought me here

[@Yumbo366]

LMAO same 🤣

[@emmanueljohncuevas9973]

interesting video！ thanks

[@AnvilMAn603]

by sailing there, thats how

[@JohnChristenNizzaDiCorsi]

By understanding it's a lot quicker to travel over the top of the globe than traversing horizontally on a map.

[@frankschlanker]

St Brendan is rumoured to have found "America" long before the Vikings. But as the Vikings had invaded Ireland, I was wondering if perhaps they had heard of the tales of St Brendan and went looking for themselves?

[@AlkalineAjay]

Crazy how the Vikings had trade/ exploration routes from Canada to Afghanistan

[@screambeyond]

And even more crazy is to believe that...

[@jprogaminggd]

I have red this in a book once. I am really interested about Vikings.

[@leifforrest]

NOT Leaf Eriksson. Leif, which sounds like Layf or Lyf. (Technically it is actually Leifur Eiríksson, ....still never 'leaf')

[@john-michaelbowes8657]

I really like the map used in the background. Where can i get a copy??

[@theawesomeman9821]

Any Vinland Saga fans out there?

[@EEM_4]

Right here dude 😂

[@itslirox]

yeah

[@gurratell7326]

As a Scandinavian it do hurt a bit every time you say "Leif" as he's some kind of leaf. The correct way of saying it is more like "Layf", as when you lay something down with and add an f in the end :)

[@ClannCholmain]

You forgot to mention saint Brendan, an historical figure from Ireland.

[@SmokingLaddy]

Unfortunately there is no physical evidence, just experiments that prove that it would have been theoretically possible with 6th century Irish technology before whiskey was invented.

[@ClannCholmain]

@@SmokingLaddy he spoke of a land of fire and ice. An obvious reference to Iceland.

[@SmokingLaddy]

@@ClannCholmain We are talking about America here.

[@ClannCholmain]

@@SmokingLaddy my point is, there was no physical evidence that the Irish were the first to arrive in Iceland until relatively recently either. The evidence is dated a full 200 years after St Brendan had died.

[@SmokingLaddy]

It was recorded in the early 1100s that Papar were in Iceland when Vikings first arrived, hardly breaking news. There is no physical evidence they were there, only written.

[@dawnhenderson9461]

Proud to be Norwegian and Native American 😊

[@sgrant9814]

Technically, both greenland and the western portion of iceland, are north america as they are both on the north american plate and not the european plate (except for iceland's eastern portion). So Erickson already lived in n. America prior to "discovering" it.

[@wondermaid6452]

That's right !

[@furiouskermit9953]

Sure, and Russia is in America too because it has an island in the Strait or Bering 😂

[@sgrant9814]

@@furiouskermit9953 do not be daft, those islands are not on the n. American plate

[@roymandina8061]

You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Neither Greenland or any portion of Iceland is even close to being part of the North American continent. This is not debatable.

[@sgrant9814]

I suggest you go back to school and learn that greenland is, i deed , par of the n. American plate as is the western half of iceland....this is common knowlwdge.@@roymandina8061

[@sailingspark9748]

Chesapeake Light Craft, a kit boat design and building company, recently completed their "Gislinge" boat, a replica of a 24 foot Norse boat that had been found buried deep in the mud in Denmark. A 12th century vessel, It is very much a working "viking" boat. In talking to John Harris the owner and designer of the replica that was built of plywood and epoxy, it accelerates and sails just as fast as a modern Multihull. Having seen it and Draken Harald Hårfagre sail, they are shockingly fast and very seaworthy. It is no big leap of logic that the Norse were able to jump to Iceland, Greenland, and then to the actual continent of North America.

[@chandlerblachut3878]

Viking is an old English word for raider. Viking is not a culture or a group of similar people. Vikings were Norse, Swedes, gotlanders, Danes, and whole shit ton of other cultural groups who had little or nothing in common. Saying Vikings got to America is like saying cowboys got to the moon because Americans did it. The Norse discovered America, not raiders

[@magnusnilsson9792]

Cowboys got to the moon and they were most likely viking descendants, with the gene of traveling to unknown places.

[@pMsAlex138]

*little to nothing in common"???

[@VidarSaeberg]

Vikningur comes from Old Norse, and Norse is not Norwegeans but from all the Nordics

[@HamBeglin-rj2vl]

@@VidarSaeberg norse are norwegians, danes and swedes were called other names

[@VidarSaeberg]

@@HamBeglin-rj2vl hehe no, all the nordic countries were norse

[@jimmccork]

A really enjoyable short film. There is obviously much more to learn about early European contact with the Western continent.

[@eodyn7]

I'll say this ONCE... discovery does not mean you were the first person to set foot in the Americas. It means you found something and then reported back home that you found something.

[@Wilhelmofdeseret]

Leif Ericsson did report it back

[@stc3145]

If he did not report it, it would not be written down later on

[@screambeyond]

So true, discovering is making most of the world being aware or informed of something they didn't know about. Encounter of civilizations, etc. Not simply putting your feet somewhere. When we look at the sky we all unconsiously see stars that are not catalogued or named yet, but that doesn't mean we have discovered them.

[@screambeyond]

@@Wilhelmofdeseret False. First, those are legends, and only nationalistic Scandinavians want to believe that what appeared in the legend was America. But mostly: the world didn't know about America, if there would have been actual reports a massive amount of people would have gone there.

[@ThatLad685]

Even if they did find it first it doesn’t matter. Columbus was the first to actually document and record it, which is the significant part.

[@gordonbesancon709]

because the church has stepped in and made sure it was Columbus.

[@kitten-k1q]

Finally, a video on YT that tells the truth about the European Viking landing on what's now called North America. I knew this as a boy and even had to argue with a teacher at school as well as many people in and out of my family. As a remote English teacher now, I'm amazed by how many people refuse to accept this fact. Reminds me of believing in god but the other way around. There is no proof of any god and yet people still believe even though the facts are staring them in the face!

[@jorgenbjerke]

His first name is pronounced like the English word "Life", not "leaf". I am Norwegian. This seems to be a common mistake among English speaking people. I have even heard a Canadian couple naming their son Leif and pronounce it "leaf". The rest of the names were pretty correctly pronounced, so you did your research, but I am sorry to say: not on the main character.

[@jorgenbjerke]

@hughjaanus6680 I see he was born Leif Per Nervik (a very Norwegian name), and his father also had/have a Norwegian name, so I guess his name was meant to be pronounced "Life" as well. But if he and others wanted to pronounce it "Leaf", that's their business. But still not correct Scandinavian/Norwegian pronounciation

[@paulingvar]

I would rather explain the sound as "Leyf" than "Life"

[@jorgenbjerke]

​@@paulingvarTo be more precise, the "ei" in Norwegian is pronounced as a diphtong between "a" as in "action" and "i" as in "in".

[@paulingvar]

@@jorgenbjerke Also in Swedish :). Sorry, but I can´t write it as exact pronunciation

[@jorgenbjerke]

@hughjaanus6680Thanks. Yes. Edited it now.

[@4wheelliving132]

They have some pretty good series about Vikings on various channels, and I would love it one of them would do a series on the Viking coming to America

[@ronbelanger4113]

North or South America? LOL, yanks .

[@randolphtiangco6239]

Iceland is geologically part of North America as well as Europe. So, whoever discovered Iceland was the first European to discover North America, not Eric or Lief.

[@malchir4036]

You seem to suggest that modern historians reject this fact. They don't.

[@JohnChristenNizzaDiCorsi]

Exactly. The difference between them and Colombo is that they knew the Earth was round and kept everything to themselves.

[@Kevin-xi6ts]

My uncle knew Leif Ericsson back in the day. He said the dude was cool and loved to party. They travelled around in Leif’s ship for a couple years until my uncle went to work with his dad at his vacuum cleaner repair shop.

[@mbc1994]

when me and my grandmother where young boys we used to play chicken with your uncle and Leif , using sail boats.

[@mbc1994]

send your CV to Leif@tilvalhall.åsg@@A_R_B_G

[@adriansalter9358]

Where is all this information taken from? It's so detailed I can't beleive that so much information has been documented in books that still exist today for reading.

[@jorgeo4483]

From Lord of the Rings.

[@paulpowell4871]

As a boy CC traveled with his father up to the nordic countries on trade. CC seen a well drawn map from the Viking era of lands to the west. He never forgot that map and had a pretty good idea there was something there. Poor calculations by others set the world at less than 26,000 mile around so CC thought it was either China or India. Originally he was going to go for his Home Kingdom being Geneviese. the war between Venice and Genoa was settled and CC lost funding until Spain came along......

[@furiouskermit9953]

Any real evidence of that trip to Scandinavia and that map? Just curious

[@SmokingLaddy]

Liar, CCs father was a 3rd generation master weaver, he had no business at sea.

[@magnusnilsson9792]

@@SmokingLaddy Weaving sails?

[@SmokingLaddy]

@@magnusnilsson9792 They don’t weave sails at sea numb nuts.

[@kNYC3]

I love these videos. How do you make your maps?

[@jorgeo4483]

He has a chimpanzee at home.

[@Mardols]

Have you ever wondered that vikings might have influenced native american culture and religion to the point that some of them became warlike and with religious sacrifices?

[@Finlzz]

Considering every culture and religion has been warlike and sacrificial, I doubt the native americans were any different before any possible interaction with vikings.

[@Mardols]

@@Finlzz oh yes. Hindu are famous for theyr blood lust. And thouse budhists sacrifices. And how about romuvan faith what was peaceful living so very close to norse. It is europe and nomads with all the war religions and sacrifices. Check the facts dude.

[@kerriwilson7732]

@@Mardols if it's important for you to blame the world's violence on white males, go ahead. Pretty confident there are support groups for people that hate white men, you'll have company.

[@jonayz8655]

Man Amerindians already were warlike and practiced human sacrificies, some cultures even practiced cannibalism.

[@JohnChristenNizzaDiCorsi]

No.

[@christopherx7428]

Of course the vikings found their way to North America. That is a well proven fact that most people know all about. However, their travels did not have the impact on the history of the world that Columbus' travels had so it makes sense that he is remembered as a pathfinder too. In fact, I seem to have read a long time ago speculations that the viking discoveries had inspired Columbus: The church would have records of its establishment on Greenland and thus possibly also of possible land further west. It does pain to my ears though to hear Leif's name pronounced like "leaf"... *ouch*

[@penolongali9860]

Anime Vinland Saga: Let me introduce myself.

[@aphextwin5712]

Greenland already is part of North America, sure it’s an island (and the world’s largest), but so is Newfoundland (an island). Certainly, Greenland is quite different than most of North America, but Canada differs a lot from Florida or Central America. And all this shows that categories often get fuzzy around the edges. Just take the (half)continent of North America which contains two (or three) main regions, one which is called North America, the other being Central America (the third being the Caribbean, though some might lump it together with Central America).

[@lucasjleandro]

If they went south they will discover a better place than England to live

[@robbygood3458]

To add to this, this is an even more obscure discovery of America after this one and before Columbus. Portuguese traders on the coast of Africa knew of the existence of Brazil, as some of the accidentally ended there but just Left and never returned.

[@sagesarabia5053]

Doesn’t matter if they discovered it first…. What matters is who developed it and they was the Spanish and Portuguese. Later the French, Dutch and English.

[@alexthegamer-is-cool]

It is likely that Norse settlers in Greenland could have visited Markland (Labrador) for timber and trade potentially all the way until norse settlers died off in Greenland (circa 1400). Meaning that Norse travelers could have visited The New World only 90 years before Columbus did.

[@SenjiaMurtic]

Columbus never discovered America..

[@parkdigwig3447]

Don’t forget “St Brendan the Navigator” whom may have come even earlier in the 500’s AD.

[@mortensuperlite]

There is no reliable evidence to indicate that Brendan ever reached Greenland or the Americas

[@vegamineral207]

You're telling me that we've had Leif Erickson Day for 60 years and as a kid in the 2000s I was still being taught about Colombus Day?

[@tokin9333]

Did you not watch SpongeBob? He mentions Leif Erickson Day at one point. Though I remember still not knowing who tf that is when it was brought up lol….but actually I guess on second thought you’re right, because I feel like I should’ve probably heard about it somewhere other than on fucking SpongeBob 😂

[@awsomedude12345678]

The reason Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering American is because it significantly changed the course of history. While Leif erikson was more like a brief moment that "happened" if we didn't know the account of Columbus every historian would be debating about who discovered America If we didn't know about Leif Erikson ... Well we would be missing out on a cool story and thats about it