The Tale of Vinland: Why the Vikings left America

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Wow that is truly informative. Never heard of it before.

[@simonsays2774]

There must have been another settlement in Hudson Bay. There is an R1b cluster there. The lower the population density, the more R1b you find. And the further you move away from the coast, the less R1b you find. The Y-Dna haplogroup must therefore have arrived there by ship before 1492. At around 57%, R1b was much more common among the Greenlandic Vikings than in Iceland or Scandinavia. It is also not known, for example, what happened to the Greenlandic Vikings. Some of them may have traveled to North America and settled there.

[@TheDillinger22]

Hi, great video can I add something .. the theory I have developed is that when the Viking settlements in Greenland which endured for around 500 yrs roughly centered on the year 1250, were abandoned due to the encroachment of colder weather. Instead of returning to Norway the Greenland Vikings went west across Davis Strait between Greenland and Baffin Island, then into Hudson Strait and North America thru Hudson Bay and James Bay, where after navigating upriver and reasonably easy portages they arrived at the Great Lakes which gave them access into Minnesota and the Heartland. Thus "Vinland" as being the traditional Viking name for North America actually means "Flat-Land, "Meadowland" or "Pastureland" as per the US heartland they would have encountered in what is now present day Canada and the US. Various scenarios have been forwarded as to what became of them .. the eastern settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland which had existed concurrent with the Greenland colonies, collapsed around the year 1003 after Thorvald Erikson the son of Erik the Red and brother of Leif Erikson, murdered eight Skrælings in a berserker style drunken rage which turned the indigenous population against them. *I am also somewhat sceptical re the L’Anse aux Meadows claims, the Vikings were great stonemasons and sculptors attested to by the sturdy Viking structures and stone carvings located in Greenland .. there is nothing like that in the Americas.* Thorvald Erikson was killed when the native tribes counter attacked, the western settlement in Minnesota had allegedly aroused the ire of the local tribes for felling timber .. others say they were wiped out in the wake of European expansion. Thus we say the Minnesota Vikings of American folklore - not the football team - are thought to have been part of an intact settlement which was razed by the "first explorers," who similarly erased all trace of their presence.

[@SebastiansFacts]

Wow, that's quite the theory you have there. Very interesting!