02 November 2022, 03:47 PM
wtgViking runes in....Oklahoma?
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Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/art...-landlocked-us-state
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
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04 November 2022, 04:28 PM
DanielI find things like this interesting.
Columbus was certainly not the first European to discover North America.
04 November 2022, 05:01 PM
Mary AnnaI've heard of this, but I haven't been there.
While reports of Scandinavian people visiting North America before Columbus seem plausible to me, especially in places like Greenland (that's considered North America, right?), Canada, and the Northeastern US, it seems less likely that they would have made it all the way to Oklahoma.
But our theories about the past are disproven all the time, it certainly is possible that they traveled that far into the interior, or perhaps that the writing system did.