Lost Secrets of the Ancient Vikings: 5 Unexplained Artifacts They Left Behind

5 Mysterious Ancient Artifacts Left By The Vikings
In 1957, amateur archeologist Guy Mellgren made a startling discovery at the Goddard archeological site in Maine: a single silver coin that could challenge our understanding of history.
Referred to as an “ancient Indian rubbish heap,” this site from around 1180-1235 AD was the remains of a Native American settlement. Mellgren’s find, however, proved to be anything but rubbish.
The coin was described as "a dark gray, fragmentary piece" featuring "an animal-like figure in a rather barbarous design." A hole punched through it suggested it had been worn as a pendant for some time. Flaking and corroded, the coin had to be ancient.
At first, Mellgren believed it was a 12th-century English coin based on analysis by a coin-collecting friend, but further study ultimately found that this was not the case…

[@Patrick.Weightman]

It's no mystery or conspiracy that the Vikings reached North America before Columbus, it's well established history. It goes beyond a single coin, there are remnants of iron smelting and longhouses in Newfoundland as well, not to mention conflicts with natives recorded by the Vikings themselves throughout the East Coast.

[@JamesFromTexas]

l'anse aux meadows is the place your thinking of

[@KCCC326]

Not to mention the ancient buddhas made of north American jade found throughout Asia.

[@itsapittie]

The coin's presence in Maine is easily explained by the existence of Native American trade networks. Such an unusual trinket would have been valuable and thus could be traded multiple times until it was far from its original site in l'Anse Aux Meadows or elsewhere in Canada.

[@CrimsonA1]

Maybe the Maine coin made its way to that location through trade? Vikings may have never stepped foot further into the North American continent, but that doesn't mean their artifacts and treasures couldn't have made it by hitching a ride with various Native American tribes at the time.

[@JamesFromTexas]

L'anse aux meadows is closer to Maine than it is to Greenland. Saying it's impossible for vikings to have made it that far south is absurd. We just don't know how far they made it. That being said, trade networks did exist. Guess we'll never know.

[@michaelhowell2326]

Look, I get them not wanting the Rok Stone to be in the church. But if that stone is represents the beginning of Norse history it belongs in a museum. Not a park shelter.

[@clipsedrag13]

White history is racist

[@frederickdelius1106]

That was no joke what i was thinking. Shelter my ass, its a roof wtf.

[@raymondtonns2521]

amen! why is the translation of the Rok stone beyond scholars? maybe a bit of protecting their own narrative of history?

[@martinhammarlund3975]

​ It's translated but the interpretation is left to speculate about. Also the stone was not in the church, it was in a building where they stored the tithe. English wikipedia is for some reason incorrect about that part.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Nah, it’s just recipe for great tasting stale fish.

[@Eremon1]

It's pretty well known here in Canada that Vikings were here long before Christopher Columbus. There is the ruins of an entire settlement on the east coast with tons of evidence of their presence in North America. Mix that with the trade networks the Aboriginal peoples had established and you get European objects scattered across the continent.

[@rickonline777]

The Irish had also already been to America - Christopher Columbus's navigator was from Galway

[@kennyhagan5781]

The little ice age is known in the myths and fairytales as the Fimbul Winter, and the villain in those stories is always Surt the undead wizard. Great stories, the one about Ottar is a good one to start with, if you're interested in folklore.

[@missourimongoose8858]

Thank you for this

[@johnscanlon2598]

The lenses were used for maritime navigation , the lenses were part of a tool that let them see the position of the sun thru overcast clouds to shaft their position , I seen a great documentary on the subject a man was able to build a replica and used it just as advertised

[@jamesfowley4114]

Were they used with the Sunstones?

[@texasrenegade2337]

Yeah we all watched the show Vikings 😂

[@misstessamarie21]

I haven't watched the show, Vikings..so I appreciate you informing the rest of us about what the lenses were used for. ❤

[@proto57]

I used to be a stone cutter and setter. I hand cut cabachons on a stone wheel, using water cooling. The stone was mounted on a dowel with a hard melted tar. The precision one can achieve doing this by hand, with practice, is extraordinary. I do not believe a lathe would be necessary to achieve the level of result shown in these pictures. In fact, years later I worked for a small company making ruby styli for cutting record masters. Those were cut on lead disks, using diamond pastes. They had multiple facets, forming the cutting angles. BUT we also re-sold machine turned hemispherical ended ruby rods, used in some process of rounding, or deburring, record grooves (I was not sure exactly how or when they were used, but it was something like this). In any case, these factory made "deburrers" were not exact. Under a microscope, the arc was not consistent, and they had flats, and so on. I explained to my boss that I could do better, given my previous experience cutting stones. Mounting the ruby rods in a pin vise, on a wetted cutting abrasive wheel, I would spin the hemi shape on the end of these rods. The abrasive was made increasingly finer, until I had a high polish. My hand results were far better than the machine results. Under the microscope, they were indistinguishable from perfect, hemispherical form. I made many, and the buyers never complained. They worked perfectly. I doubt any machine more complex than a spinning stone, if that even, and the stone hand-held, was used to make these Visby lenses.

[@misstessamarie21]

Wow! That's seriously amazing! You sound like a very talented individual. ❤ thank you for sharing that. 🙏🏻 I think modern day society doesn't give our ancestors enough credit. I mean, what else would you do back then but to have time to perfect your craft.

[@johndee2990]

So the process is somewhat similar to polishing Obsidian or Jade into smooth shapes?

[@proto57]

@@johndee2990 Probably, but I don't know if they are exactly the same processes for Obsidian or Jade, as I never cut those stones. But an interesting thing about Obsidian: At least back in the 1600's, polished obsidian mirrors... black mirrors... were made somehow. This is, as you know, a VERY hard stone. Some of these mirrors... speculums... made it to Europe, and were highly prized by "seers", spiritualists, and magicians. The famous doctor to Queen Elizebeth the first had one, and it is in a British Museum.

[@johndee2990]

@@proto57 I should know, tis my personal possession

[@JamesFromTexas]

I can't believe you never heard of l'anse aux meadows in Canada. It proves vikings were here WAY before Columbus.

[@tylerbrooks2492]

As a man descended from Nordic blood this is absolutely true

[@Alpha00227]

Agreed friend, unfortunately history is has ALWAYS been written by the victors until todays times along with technology…

[@genx6623]

Leif Ericsson. 1000-1100 AD Newfoundland Canada

[@JamesFromTexas]

@@tylerbrooks2492 me too! Northern Scotland was settled by a Nord named Gunni that my family decended from

[@Zer0fuks]

Pale skinned, red haired, green eyed antediluvian Giants were here WAY before the Siberian Nomads AKA "Native Americans" came around and killed them all off and stole their land. South America was the last refuge for the Giants, they built all those megalithic stone cities high up in the mountains until they slowly disappeared and other people found their abandoned cities and settled into them. The Spanish even recorded fighting Giants in Mexico when they were battling the Aztecs. The Paiutes have stories of killing off the last of the Red haired, white skinned, cannibal Giants (Sitecah) in the Lovelock Cave in Nevada.

[@krodkrod8132]

The Quartz Lens was held up to the sky on a cloudy day and it would give you the exact position of the sun. It was used for navigation.

[@josephwilliams7995]

that's exactly what I was thinking

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

I believe they even referenced this on that show Vikings.

[@TheChilKat]

To me here in modern times it makes sense the owner of a very valuable telescope would keep the required lens disguised as a sacred amulet. When the two are separated they were considered harmless.

[@Daijyobanai]

It appears archaeologists and historians are outrageously arrogant about how primitive our ancestors were, and how advanced they think we are in the present day. They know little of the past, but assume everything about it.

[@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667]

It's not just the appearance. That is the fact. We aren't told what science has to say or archaeology has to say, we are told what scientists and archaeologists have to say and it's usually b*******.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

I did a video on a island off Maine’s Coast that had a huge boulder that was under a 200+ year old tree. Once the tree fell Viking carvings are on the stone, crosses, a Viking Ship with oars and many other effigy’s. This stone is unknown by scientists and only known by a few. I did a video on it having been taken there.

[@CamMackay96]

You have a lot of videos haha, help me out with the title to look for? I'd be interested to see this stone artifact

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

@@CamMackay96 VIKINGS IN MAINE? WE FIND EVIDENCE IN THIS EPISODE | METAL DETECTING IN MAINE WITH CAPT'N BILLY kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaKkqGaXgteZrtE

[@fffrrraannkk]

@@CamMackay96 I think I found it. Look for: Vikings in Maine? We Find Evidence in This Episode | Metal Detecting in Maine with Capt'n Billy

[@AusDenBergen]

I'll check it out. I do the same with my children.

[@slybri5751]

We have UBBERS navigation stone in our village HUMBERSTON (ubbers stone), GRIMSBY,ENGLAND. its a BIG granite boulder with quartz stars embedded, it lays near our church, next to an AWESOME cafe called the GINGERBREAD HOUSE. History books dont say much about this, its said they settled in YORK first, but they need to TWEEK alot of our history dont they.haha.

[@bob7975]

Those lenses bring to mind both the Silmarils and the Palantiri of Tolkien. So much of what he wrote was grounded in as much truth as you'll ever find in myth. We know the vikings used calcite sunstones to navigate at sea during the night. These may have had a similar use, not necessarily telescopes, but augmenting human sight under difficult conditions of haze or low light. Their presence in the graves may be as a guide in the afterworld.

[@secretagent86]

Most do not know about the sunstones… i have heard of them and it blew my mind!

[@mattl9070]

That's a very interesting theory you have there... Tell us more please !

[@user-McGiver]

they were using the stars at night... and the sun in the day... but the sunshine up North is rare... so they were using these crystals to ''spot'' the sun through heavy clouds... It's been proven... don't ever take the ''dark'' series as a source of information... the all series is extremely inaccurate... pretty cool though... lol I like the '' guide to the Afterlife '' explanation you gave...

[@zombiasnow15]

@@secretagent86 I recall the mention of sunstones in the tv show, Vikings a few years back.☠️

[@the1tigglet]

I believe that the lenses are likely used to start fires in sunlight and likely sunstones, which allowed the vikings the ability to always know what time of the day it was even on cloudy days which was the standard sky in most places in Europe of the time. If you're out at sea and you see fire to cook etc, you need something to light the torches, they didn't have matches and wet flint wasn't practical.

[@occamsrazor9183]

I've used some of the same storyblocks clips in my videos, the last burial was very impressive of two stallions added. It gave me thought of cultures through centuries not only laying rest with great honors, but the belief material items necessary in passing...

[@danielgreensides8463]

Awesome content as always! Love this channel!

[@Deletedcommentfactory]

I think we all know that the Vikings were highly advanced. They created bluetooth, after all.

[@ur1cat]

LOL!

[@Daijyobanai]

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[@RobinBarton-fh1ts]

Nailed it !!!!!!lol!!!!!!!

[@davidc6510]

A great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@glennda72]

I live in east anglia where towns like maldon were viking towns, love the viking history, and I love this channel and the way it's all explained,

[@zombiasnow15]

Me too! When I was in 5th grade, we were taught about the Vikings but it was a small part of our learning. I've been hooked onto Viking lore and history since, I am currently 58yy🙂

[@QuestionsStuff]

I am sticking with Dark5's channels I know Im listening to a real person with a pulse and not the soulless delivery of an AI ..

[@drpepperr]

Oh contraire, mon frere.

[@landonpotts6815]

Great job on this video.

[@vincentrandles8105]

Uncertain? Not! Leif Erikson made landfall in North America in the year 1000, of that there is no doubt!

[@dstrbdhunter4089]

Ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated by the "Money Pit." A supposedly cursed buried treasure with flooded caverns and boobytraps that many people have lost fortunes to in an attempt to reveal its secrets.

[@zombiasnow15]

Fascinating!

[@TakBonez]

And when you finally get past all the flooded caverns and boobytraps. You'll find the Treasure Room guarded by Voldo from Soul Calibur.

[@KCCC326]

You have to know nothing about history to not know that the Vikings discovered America.

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

They didn't "discover" it- it'd already been settled for thousands of years before the Vikings arrived. Saying that the Vikings "discovered" America is like saying Buzz Aldrin "discovered" the Moon. 🙄 🍄

[@johnscanlon2598]

They didn’t discover it either there’s evidence of an Irish monk arriving before also possibly the Chinese and others

[@PathologicallyPositive]

Sumerian artifact in South America; Phoenician artifacts in Amazon and Phoenician genetics in Peruvian natives(they say from about 2000 years ago, but I believe older), and there is even evidence of welsh people making it to North America almost 1000 years ago and getting absorbed into Native American cultures!

[@kevind1650]

My guess is that the people who "discovered" it were also the people who populated it...long before Columbus or the Vikings did.

[@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667]

Actually you have to be completely ignorant of History to pretend that America was discovered by either Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, or Leif Erikson. Stop promoting your ignorance out loud as if you were the smart one please. You only serve to further embarrass yourself.

[@fester73666]

Another interesting video 👍👍

[@TnT_F0X]

The visby lenses allow you to see the sun's position in a cloudy sky. Brilliant Viking invention.

[@grey8940]

badass video, thanks

[@PJFunnyBunny-yl7co]

I subbed! Awesome video!

[@lexion2772]

The Dark 5 channels are so under-rated.

[@TangoKittyOmicron]

I don't know anything, not a historian by any means, but in the Vikings series on the History channel, a Frenchman showed Ragnar a piece of crystal which was used in the sunlight to help them keep a true direction to cross the ocean, and those Visby lenses made me think of that. Maybe these were made by the French or the English, but were plundered by the Vikings. It probably isn't, but that's just the first thing I thought of when I saw them.

[@zombiasnow15]

I thought the same thing

[@vebnew]

Excellent

[@chrisflores4788]

"Were the English the fist to discover America?" Whoever wrote that newspaper article surely flunked History. Back when the Vikings were not known to have reached America, it was understood that Columbus discovered America and Ponce de León discovered part of what is now the US (Florida).

[@lordalexandermalcolmguy6971]

Cool stuff

[@baggieknight8411]

The sword with the len attachment looks like a Viking version of the magnifying glass from "Rommer Room" LoL

[@_randombob]

The visby lenses, I picked up somewhere they were used to find the direction of the sun reliably in overcast conditions

[@AdamSteidl]

I've heard tell that the lenses helped em navigate on cloudy days by making the Sun's location more clear, even with it cloudy and overcast. Might also have been used as a firestarter.

[@TheRich464]

Wow i had no idea about any of these. truly treasures. but hard to pinpoint origin due to all of their raids.

[@michaelhowell2326]

How could you know what items he's discussing on 12 minute video that has only been out 3 minutes?

[@jeffbudd7678]

How did you NOT know the Vikings made it here before Columbus?

[@michaelhowell2326]

@@jeffbudd7678 I think it's either a bot or someone heart hunting. They didn't have time to watch the first entry, much less the whole video on the time available.

[@rogergoodman8665]

I believe the Vikings landed in North America in more than the one documented site in Canada. There are many accounts of blonde, blue eyed Indians from European colonists from St. Augustine in Florida all the way up the east coast. Some artifacts have also been found in the midwest. This is in addition to accounts of Native Americans tribes telling the so called first settlers that they were not the first people with fair skin and light hair to arrive in the area in large boats. For some reason, most historians ignore all of this evidence, much like they do other ancient legends.

[@zombiasnow15]

IMO, this is reason to save books from destruction

[@aishalotter9995]

Also prince Madog from north Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@scottdittmer5597]

King Olaf The Peaceful. Superb!

[@MarkHahn]

What's wild is we have already proven the Vikings landed WAY WAY WAY before Columbus. I wish our academics would be more receptive to the findings.

[@preparedbear5727]

It was a good for skipping coins across the atlantic!

[@vincentrandles8105]

More of this would be my choice!

[@drpepperr]

I recall that an artifact, maybe it was a coin, linked to the Varangian Guard (Viking mercenaries in service of Byzantine emperors) were found in the Persian Gulf region, implying that Vikings (or Byzantines) circumnavigated the African continent. They really got around!

[@zombiasnow15]

Especially after they split in many directions, with different Families going their separate ways.

[@respektetoutlavi714]

I have to wonder if those crystals were the ancient “sunstones” Vikings used for incredibly accurate navigation!?

[@kathleenlovett1958]

The Visbi lenses are symbolic of the Firmament; they work in the same way.

[@the_phaistos_disk_solution]

I once saw a demonstration of how the Viking lens was used for ocean navigation. It was used in foggy or low visibility conditions and was very accurate. If I recall the user would take two sightings to do it. I total fog. The Vikings were successful seafarers after all.

[@cujimmy1366]

The lenses could also have been used to create the shapes of Star constellations for navigation when teaching.

[@JohnyComeLately]

I wonder if those lenses were used as refined birefringent calcite sunstones for navigation

[@oubliette862]

I thought they used the lenses to see the sun on cloudy days so they wouldn't get lost. The clouds don't block the suns uv light and the crystal lets you see the UV the clouds can't block or something like that. They had something that they made for that purpose anyway.

[@Tim_the_Astronurd]

yeah I remember a show hosted by Josh Gates where they demonstrated that

[@user-McGiver]

yep... you're right... dark is wrong again... dumb AI...lol

[@ddoherty5956]

The Vikings were trading with the Arabs and many of them were ahead of their time.

[@user-McGiver]

they were selling Slavs to the Arabs [mostly females] as slaves, and actually the word ''slave'' comes from the word ''Slav''...

[@happymonk4206]

I like the idea of shield maidens. The Viking culture to me is fascinating.

[@frederickdelius1106]

How much would that suck if were the only time in history that an alien race isnt helping or making cool shit with us....

[@danielsee1]

What is a veeking?

[@charlespittsjr604]

I thought those lens were for finding the sun on cloudy days.

[@justinmckiernan4661]

Please tell me you’re not referring to the Vikings tv show lol 😂

[@user-McGiver]

@@justinmckiernan4661 trust the ''dark'' to lead you to enlightenment... LOL DUDE!

[@ShadeViking7]

⚡💯

[@clicli9591]

Wait a minute, the vikings were there before anyone else. And it's been proven.

[@CamMackay96]

Anyone? There have been hominids in the Americas since the last ice age, over 12k years ago. Vikings didn't even exist at that point

[@ericanderson3453]

Says who?!?!

[@StewBurtTheRed]

One thing that gets me is at the end if the video, they changed the name from "the BIRKA WARRIOR" to "THE BIRKA FEMALE WARRIER" ? Why not call her what she is "THE BIRKA SHIELD MAIDEN" that sounds way more badass in my opinion. Still a dope video tho

[@quizilot]

The birka "warrior" has long ago been explained. The bones had no damage consistent with ancient combat and were surrounded by riches far exceeding a common warrior burial. However it was common for wives and slaves to be sacrificed or willingly self sacrifice to aid warriors in the afterlife. Considering we don't even see the type of stress damage you would find in slave bones and no damage to wrists, it is most likely this was a wife who self sacrificed to follow her husband whose body couldn't be recovered.

[@TheDocLamkin]

Are you trying to tell me snow white wasn't ambiguously brown and expected to be a warrior Queeng?! I just don't believe...oh my god a fairy died!! Awww ESG pay for play history, don't it just make you respect a previously loved channel less and question prior content? Like what else was up for interpretation sell? It's the best!

[@bob7975]

That doesn't prove the person in question was never in battle. Flesh wounds would not necessarily show on bones, especially after so many centuries in the grave. There is such a thing as being lucky. It is also possible this was the daughter of a king, who had claim to both a rich grave treasure and arms, without having won either in battle. Ancient literary sources are mostly on the pro-female warrior side of the equation, though, and at the end of the day, I trust primary sources, who were, after all, there.

[@savannakougar5209]

Of course there are women warriors. We are born that way. The Amazon warrior women have proven to be real. And fearsome. I just listened to a martial arts expert who trains women and claims they are actually tougher than many men.

[@josephwilliams7995]

the first thing I thought of when I saw the lens was navigation

[@JimmyDean1312]

It's pretty accepted that the viking settlement of Vinland was the one found on Newfoundland. They landed in lands that were already inhabited(as the whole continent was), the homelands of the ancestors of mi'kmaq and inuit people, who have apparently passed down oral traditions that match up with alot of the viking accounts, which were also believed to have been passed down orally by Greenlanders before 2 different instances of being written down much later. What's clear that happened is that they made contact, traded with each other, and then eventually came into conflict with each other and the indigenous people chased them off of the island and back into the sea. This is the known extent of how far inland the vikings made it and claims of making it even further than that are all rooted in later colonial narratives and not any sort of real evidence. What's wild about the Maine penny is that it apparently dates to 500 (if I remember correctly) years after it is believed that vikings were chased off the island. And the location it was found in connects to a trade route that leads back to the island the Vinland settlement was on. So it likely followed a trade route from the same island. But this implies that trade between indigenous people and Greenlanders continued hundreds of years after the vikings were chased off.

[@kettleions]

Author Robert Temple's book on Cristal lenses...🤩

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

".......some say, many believe........" it's like Ancient Aliens one drip at a time

[@Piggers71]

It's no wonder. They were very tall women. Probably much bigger than many of their male enemies.

[@aurorajones8481]

Are you not referring to sun stones? They used these to traverse the oceans. It allowed them to track the sun on cloudy days when navigation would be paramount and your only guide blocked.

[@royharrington3220]

There a mastodon processing area outside of San Diego that dates back 130 thousand years.

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

No- there's an area that was *thought* to be, but there is absolutely *no evidence* to support the claim, and it's now widely accepted that the original supposition was false. 🍄

[@MrJackwork]

The lenses were used to find the sun on foggy days for navigation.

[@coreyhughes7756]

Could be used for navigation yeah

[@rollacoastaride1937]

I believe the Vikings were originally the migrating Spartans

[@user-McGiver]

the Dorians came from the North... we don't know exactly where they came from... but we know that Appolon came from the ''Hyperborea''[ far North, or ''way too North''] in Greek, they crossed all of Greece and they end up in Lakaidemon, where they build Sparta... later a branch of them went up north and founded Macedonia ... that's what we know... around Sparta, you'll found blond hair and blue eyes to be the norm... not so much in the rest of Greece... so, yes!... you may be somehow right...

[@amadeusamwater]

The Vikings believed in Valkyries, who were warrior women, so the idea of Viking women as warriors should not have been too unusual.

[@swenoyme9049]

The lenses are really interesting. But the laws of refraction don’t really need to be understood for someone to look at a blob of glass and see that it is making things appear larger and smaller. A few decades of trial and error and someone could have easily figured out how to perfect them.

[@avstraffelse]

Shieldmaidens did not fight in combat they only carried the weapons for the for the Warriors

[@bob7975]

Snorri Sturluson says you're wrong.

[@Daijyobanai]

were you there? i was I'm 1400 yrs old.

[@avstraffelse]

@@bob7975 seriously he was a Christian and a liar very non credible source

[@jameslu726]

Anybody else getting cut off at the end?

[@abacus749]

10.50mins 'the warrior' may have been the beloved wife of a heartbroken warrior who buried his horses and large and very heavy weapons with her as a sign of his grief.

[@AveryChristy]

I'm surprised there's no mention of Uruguay. The world's largest collection of Viking runes is on a mountain in Uruguay. I know it doesn't get much attention because the archeologist who published his findings was not a white-european, and he published in Portuguese, but still...

[@stevenhall4444]

Ya they definitely where i can't get how you didn't know that

[@carlcarlson7654]

FYI Bluetooth technology was named after King Harald Bluetooth.

[@trimdinbusk]

Those lenses with a dried out funghi catches fire in 3 seconds on a Sunny day

[@m.asquino7403]

How about navigation?

[@ChileExpatFamily]

If AI is so good and all. you have to wonder how come they do not use it to translate these old stones and makers and ancient writings?

[@ChileExpatFamily]

@@mewoozy2 Well see now I have learned something... thank you kindly. Jim

[@user-McGiver]

@@ChileExpatFamily AI's are processing input that is provided [things we know already] so they're good for things we're too lazy to do... simples...

[@ChileExpatFamily]

@@user-McGiver okay 👍

[@ChileExpatFamily]

@@user-McGiver I was thinking that maybe the ai could collate the data that some of us are not aware of and come up with a more informed answer 😁. Jim

[@user-McGiver]

@@ChileExpatFamily go ahead... worship your new God!... get off my back!...

[@percival1137]

Come on guys. The coin got here in the pocket of a monkey that floated here from afar on a natural raft. I mean, it is like so totally obvious. Like duh.

[@atw98]

Yeah Na, you can make a lense out of a crystal and sand.

[@kevinlutz5994]

We have the Alexandria rune stone in Minnestoa. You betch ya.

[@SMunro]

You can polish a lens on a diamond surface.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

The Vikings were masters of certain things, that's unquestionable. Fighting, screwing, robbing, navigation, trade, women's rights, shipbuilding, the list goes on and on.

[@baggieknight8411]

Who's to say that the Vikings made the lens.... Remember they pillaged everywhere they went

[@barto4678]

I hope those excavating the graves are cursed forever.

[@artvillasenor8333]

Bashwani temple VAULT B

[@timrose9826]

A stone cutting lathe is Not primitive in any way I want someone to explain how they had this technology

[@xodiaq]

Lathes were in use as far back as 1300 BC, it wasn’t high tech, and Vikings had trade routes all through Europe and the Middle East as far out as Iran by 1100 AD. That’s plenty of time to have picked up a lathe.

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

Aliens gave them it. 🙄 🍄

[@kevind1650]

aliens flew millions of lightyears from outer space to give them a mchine made out of wood and metal so they could figure out how to cut rudimentary crystals into lenses, instead of just giving them an Ipad and GPS. The more I hear about these aliens, the more I realize how stingy they were with their toys.

[@timrose9826]

@@kevind1650 what the Fuck are you talking about foo

[@timrose9826]

@@xodiaq then go dig one up dummy

[@mattimeo7612]

Haha yeah I remember that 2017 "birka warrior" thing popping up right around the same time it was "discovered" through ancient tapestry embroidery that vikings were actually all secretly Muslim. Though it's not nearly as exciting as the possibility of a real life Lagertha, if I remember correctly that 2017 claim was very misleading. Those pictures aren't the actual pictures. The tomb had multiple chambers with multiple burials and her skeleton just happened to be in one of the chambers. It isn't like the illustration portrays where there's a skeleton laid out wreathed in funeral offerings. Most of those were in other chambers, I think she had some sort of viking chess board with her which was what started the whole idea that maybe the other stuff could have belonged to her. Definitely not as it was presented in articles but it made for good girl power clickbait at the time.

[@ecarlate]

yes some historians tried to said that was not the good skeleton they analized, but they did it again and proved definitively that was a woman. Same in iceland, they found the tomb of a princess, with everything for the woman of a high ranking jarl wife..... but analysis of the skeleton showed it was a male. Viking had no concept of woman/man segregation, at adult age all those who wanted passed the test to be a man... the test were both physically and mentally challenging, any one who was passing the test were becoming "man" and part of the warrior, all others, who don't wanted to pass them or failed them, were doing house shore

[@leschatsont9vies]

I discovered a whole story about the Vikings, they went far beyond South America, are you interested in knowing?

[@ericanderson3453]

Oh, you discovered?!? And where pray tell did you "discover" these revelations professor?!? Did some fancy book learning did you!!! It's fun to pretend sometimes!!!

[@leschatsont9vies]

@@ericanderson3453 yes a big story, but in FRENCH, I'll have to translate this, I'm talking about facts ; many are known by historians but they NEVER told about all of this

[@dawnanderson9628]

Bolivia....

[@leschatsont9vies]

@@dawnanderson9628 Yes, Perou, Bolivia and more, it's going to take me months but I'll put videos on my channel about this whole story, in English of course

[@DH-.]

Bigfoot battles

[@felixpoventud3914]

The ancient aliens gave the tools and teachings to early humens! And told them that one day they will be back! Showed them ways to watch the skys! For there return!

[@saltynadsack]

I much prefer the idea that the Vikings discovered North America first.

[@hoboroller5642]

Why does history Need a basement full of secrets?

[@kevinoconnell6488]

Talamar,talamar dew!

[@Trash432]

I hate when people try to talk like every one was dumb and couldn't make perfect things with the tools they had. They had no TV no phone no anything it was work or die so of course 8/10 ish people was that skilled in their craft they had all day every day to do it.

[@Zehnuss]

Vikings made it down to Martha's vineyard Island, the true Vinland

[@user-bi5vb2dl5k]

Vinland is USA…

[@davis4555]

Bluetooth, the wireless connection method, is named after Harold Bluetooth. That is why a rune is used as it's symbol.

[@johnbroadway4196]

HEAR THAT ! 500 YEARS ! WE ARE TRULY IGNORANT OF HISTORY. SISU !!!!! ⚡

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

WE? Speak for yourself. 🙄 🍄

[@johnbroadway4196]

@@the_unrepentant_anarchist. Dude, please let me give you the personification in rhetorical. Good day citizens.

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

@@johnbroadway4196 "Dude"- have you sat on your phone or something?? Are you having a stroke?! Would you like me to ring you an ambulance??!! I'm guessing that English isn't your first language...? 🤔 🍄

[@johnbroadway4196]

@@the_unrepentant_anarchist. I am certifiably fine. Just felt like I should " ink blast you '. Groovy to say Misha gosh. 😜😁🤟

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

@@johnbroadway4196 I'm not sure that "certifiable" is the word you should have used there, but., hang on.., maybe it *is...* 😉 🍄

[@hilossrt4]

No mystery here. They looted lots of good stuff from all over the world.

[@Artofficial1986]

I wish I could have seen that epic Viking warrior woman.