The Story of the Vikings in North America

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8 ай бұрын

The Viking Sagas tell of fantastical tales of voyages beyond Iceland and Greenland to lands further west that they named Helluland, Markland and Vinland. The Norse (Vikings) liked what they found and established settlements to either use as bases to explore the region further and or to gather resources for shipment east to Greenland and Iceland. It didn’t take long before the Norse encountered people who already lived there. The first encounters between the native inhabitants and the Norse quickly turned violent and eventually culminated into full blown conflict between the two groups. This resistance from the Native Americans eventually compelled the Norse to abandon their North American settlements. For centuries afterward, these accounts written in the 14th century in Iceland were considered legendary tall tales, but in 1960 archaeological evidence of a Norse (Viking) in North America was discovered on the northern tip of what today is Newfoundland, Canada. This site became known as L’anse aux Meadows and finally lent the Viking Sagas a measure of historicity. In the decades that followed further research charted the movements of the Norse throughout the region of the St. Lawrence Bay. Recent research has even pinned an exact irrefutable date of Norse occupation of the L’anse aux Meadows site. However, many questions still remain to be answered with sufficient evidence such as whether the Norse actually made contact with Native Americans and what the purpose of their settlement at L’anse aux Meadows was.
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@jackrussell3084 8 ай бұрын

Always great to see a new video upload from World Chronicles

@lourias 8 ай бұрын

I believe that the copper found in the north was probably because of the natural deposit of copper near Lake Michigan... with or without the help of the Norse, Native Americans still would have utilized copper. It is my understanding that the Lake Michigan deposit was a pure deposit, meaning that it did not need to be smelted to remove impurities.

@lourias 7 ай бұрын

@NolanVoid-dr1ch duh. However, it IS FACT that there is an area near Michigan where pure copper was found and utilized by NATIVE AMERICANS. They used that copper. They made tools from that copper. They did not need to have the very high and intense heat required for smelting because the copper was so pure that there was no need to smelt. So, if the indigenous tribes of North America had access to pure copper to make tools and jewelry, then it is also probably the tools found were made by the early indigenous people, and not necessarily brought to America by people from other continents. Since I was not alive way back when, I BELIEVE that....

@slake9727 Ай бұрын

There are no copper mines in Newfoudland, and the Beothucks never learned how to work with metal.

@yomilkers8133 Ай бұрын

The phoenicians got the same metals from the great lakes 4000 years ago, they had similar ships as the vikings

@olliverklozov2789 Күн бұрын

@@yomilkers8133 Mr. Hancock, all copper mines produce a unique isotope, and geology has proven NO copper went from the new world to the old pre-columbus. And the earth really is round.

@yomilkers8133 Күн бұрын

@@olliverklozov2789 Templars went to the Americas way before columbus came

@danserpourlavie7649 8 ай бұрын

Well-made documentaries, love it! Thank you for sharing, and I am looking forward to your next video! 👍👍

@numbers9696 7 ай бұрын

Become a true warrior, Thorfinn Also never stop uploading

@compromisedssh 3 ай бұрын

I joined your Patreon. I would love to suggest a video (but it might be truly difficult to research.. idk). If you're willing to create a video about how anciet societies learned to navigate and plan crops via star-watching, I'll gladly upgrade to your $10 tier. Think about how many buildings (most of which were wooden and didn't last, but Stonehenge is a more-permanent example) lined up with events like solstices. Lots of Egyptian architecture fits the bill, but so do structures in pre-Anglo Saxon Britain (like I just mentioned) and all over Gaul. That's wild. Who figured all that stuff out and how long did it take? I wouldn't be able to tell for sure which day was the longest of the year without a clock or stopwatch, but basically every ancient society got that nailed down. How many generations passed to put all that info together? How many people in a given society had all that stellar knowledge-- just the priests, or, like, most people? Stuff like that. I imagine that most of this info was never recorded (or was recorded and lost), so finding the most credible theories might be your only hope. Anyway-- I think it would be interesting (and I'm essentially offering you $120/year to look into this and put something together). I have faith in you.

@WorldChronicles1 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for joining my Patreon! Thanks also for the video topic recommendation. I will add it to my list and let you know when I get to it. I actually talked about that kind of stuff a little bit in my Cahokia video. According to a theory by the archaeologist Pauketat, who has done extensive research and field work on and at Cahokia, the city was built right after the supernova of 1054 AD and all the city's streets, plazas, and monuments are aligned with various celestial objects. Pauketat used a term frequently called "archaeoastronomy" to refer to the type of research work that went into interpreting these prehistoric topics. "Archaeoastronomy" is the multidisciplinary study of figuring out how prehistoric peoples made sense of the heavens. I talked about all of this in my Cahokia video. If you haven't already looked into the field of "Archaeoastronomy" I think you should definitely do so as it might answer many questions that you have

@hammondknight1307 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting!

@asbisi 7 ай бұрын

Why are so many people correcting the pronunciations of names? I am and Icelander, and I don´t care. Good video. I always thought that Bjarni Herjólfsson had sailed to North America (Newfoundland) and back to Greenland and Iceland several times, trading with timber from Newfoundland. As you say, he sold his boat to Leifur who was about to make the journey to America. Bjarni wanted to go, but said he unfortunately was too old. Maybe I misunderstood the trading with timber bit. I researched this online some years ago and may have found "bad" sources. I am sure you have your facts straight, it certainly seems so!

@Kevin-gd3mq 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting topic, great video

@WorldChronicles1 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@mitchelllucier6930 4 ай бұрын

Great vid!

@WorldChronicles1 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@BobSmith-dk8nw 18 күн бұрын

The thing is - because of boats - you would have people from any culture that had them venturing to all kinds of places. You just wouldn't necessarily have any proof that they'd been there. As far as the New World would be concerned - what you have is a dilution of Viking Numbers. If you look at the things Vikings did in Eastern and Western Europe - a substantial portion of their numbers would have been absorbed in such activity. For such luxury items as Grapes - they could after all get them from France and not have to venture so far from the people they would sell them to. It would seem to be much easier to transport grapes from France than across the Atlantic. So - the things they could get from the New World in North America would mostly be things they could have gotten in Norway. So - why cross the North Atlantic to get them? It's not like they couldn't get anything they could trade with the East - but - just not enough of it to really matter. The big thing about Columbus - was not that he got to the New World - but that he was the representative of the King and Queen of Spain. That and he found Gold. With the backing of a major European Power - and a desire for Gold - the Spanish made a much more serious, coordinated effort at Colonizing the New World. This had a much more lasting effect than that of small groups of Vikings struggling to survive. Another factor in Columbus's favor - was the level of technology he had as opposed to the Vikings. They didn't have cannon. They had better weapons than the Indians - but not that much better - certainly not enough to make up for the disparity in the numbers of the two peoples. Basically - the Vikings were exploratory - and they found some things but - not enough to inspire massive colonization. .

@camh1149 Ай бұрын

I remember reading in the newspaper as a child that a stone with Norse symbols was found in the Eastern Townships in Quebec. I'm not sure if this was a tale or a true story. All I know is that New-Brunswick is relatively not very far from the Eastern Townships, accessible by foot.

@yomilkers8133 Ай бұрын

Vikings were in south america, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina

@niknaython1979 7 күн бұрын

Man just spoiled the rest of Vinland Saga

@grainofsand7841 Ай бұрын

Since Rollo married the french Duchess in 911, they would have had greater access to maps, plus they already had navigated quite a bit of upper North America. It's also been discovered that Viking DNA was less European and more Asian, so my guess is Mongolian, which makes sense since Mongols were also white. Legend tells Khan was tall and white. So, older maps depict Tartarian lands covering North America and Asia, even some Europe. By the time Columbus arrived, french were already trading throughput the entire continent, and maps depict serious castles and clonoies, french. That mixed in with all the Utah caves of large red heaired men with boats, Arizona, possibly Missouri, you've got a huge chunk of missing history that has hints of existence in sagas. They were here, and probably the great white brother the natives were waiting for when the explorers showed up.

@mason3297 29 күн бұрын

That was a great speech and all. But would you want to come back to reality now?

@Blalack77 7 ай бұрын

I don't know if it's a hoax or a mistake or what - and I know there are supposedly the runestones specifically and seemingly exclusively all up and down the Mississippi River - but I live in north-central-ish Arkansas, just north of the Arkansas River and several years ago, there was supposedly a large rock/boulder discovered with runestones covering it on Crow Mountain in Russellville overlooking the Arkansas River. It was on the local news, in the newspaper, people were talking about it and seems like I even had a professor talking about it. But the gist was something like, they came down the Mississippi River until they reached where the Arkansas River meets it and they came upstream at least all the way to what is now Russellville and they could see Crow Mountain in the distance and decided it would be a good place to camp. Either way, I just thought that was gnarly because I've heard about their supposed presence on the Mississippi River but Russellville is pretty much on the opposite side of the state - maybe like an hour from the Oklahoma border via I-40. And I just thought that could theoretically open a whole new set of possibilities - with the Arkansas River starting in Colorado and flowing to the Arkansas-Mississippi border - as to all of the different places they could have reached on the continent via the Arkansas River... But the archaeologists/researchers (probably very wisely) didn't disclose the location to prevent destruction and defacement (which, knowing the ornery rednecks around here, some drunk kid probably would have destroyed it if they would have released the exact location..) But that was probably 10+ years ago and I haven't heard anything else about it - so maybe it was BS.. I just know I would have loved to see it.

@brenthall6539 23 күн бұрын

My claim,if the Norse found the Nelson rivers delta,in Hudsons bay,they may have made it to my house in Saskatchewan but more easily to Kensington in the us of a.