Vikings on Baffin Island
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Vikings on Baffin Island
Were Vikings on Baffin Island? Great article from National Geographic News!
Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada
Sharpeners may be smoking guns in quest for New World's second Viking site.
Archaeologist Patricia Sutherland (orange jacket) excavates a potential Viking site on Baffin Island.
For the past 50 years—since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland—archaeologists and amateur historians have combed North America's east coast searching for traces of Viking visitors.
It has been a long, fruitless quest, littered with bizarre claims and embarrassing failures. But at a conference in Canada earlier this month, archaeologist Patricia Sutherland announced new evidence that points strongly to the discovery of the second Viking outpost ever discovered in the Americas.
While digging in the ruins of a centuries-old building on Baffin Island (map), far above the Arctic Circle, a team led by Sutherland, adjunct professor of archaeology at Memorial University in Newfoundland and a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, found some very intriguing whetstones. Wear grooves in the blade-sharpening tools bear traces of copper alloys such as bronze—materials known to have been made by Viking metalsmiths but unknown among the Arctic's native inhabitants.
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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/new ... utherland/
Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island....
Norse legends on Baffin Island
Mount Thor
Mount Odin
Mount Asgard
Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada
Sharpeners may be smoking guns in quest for New World's second Viking site.
Archaeologist Patricia Sutherland (orange jacket) excavates a potential Viking site on Baffin Island.
For the past 50 years—since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland—archaeologists and amateur historians have combed North America's east coast searching for traces of Viking visitors.
It has been a long, fruitless quest, littered with bizarre claims and embarrassing failures. But at a conference in Canada earlier this month, archaeologist Patricia Sutherland announced new evidence that points strongly to the discovery of the second Viking outpost ever discovered in the Americas.
While digging in the ruins of a centuries-old building on Baffin Island (map), far above the Arctic Circle, a team led by Sutherland, adjunct professor of archaeology at Memorial University in Newfoundland and a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, found some very intriguing whetstones. Wear grooves in the blade-sharpening tools bear traces of copper alloys such as bronze—materials known to have been made by Viking metalsmiths but unknown among the Arctic's native inhabitants.
Read more...
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/new ... utherland/
Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island....
Norse legends on Baffin Island
Mount Thor
Mount Odin
Mount Asgard
Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
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Thor Heyerdahl Says: “Our lack of knowledge about our own past is appalling.
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Fascinating stuff, thanks for finding this Averagejoe!
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Nice post, AvgJoe. T'was my ancestors out there, roaming and boating, sharpening their shivs!
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Catsumi, Baffin Island should be our next vaca destination, to look up relatives...
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I bet Viking chix were hot!
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j watson, you watch The Vikings on the History Channel yet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)
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Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
Thor Heyerdahl Says: “Our lack of knowledge about our own past is appalling.
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Queen K, I have not seen it I'm afraid but I do dare to dream. I did google pics of those Viking chix though and it would appear I was right. Are you a Viking descendent?
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Unlike Catsumi who is sure, I only "may be" given their invasions into Russia and the British Isles alike. I am part Scottish and part Russian, so when I went to Iceland and felt the connection, I'd like to think I could be part Viking.
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Map location of Mounts Thor, Odin and Asgard...on Baffin Island
Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
Thor Heyerdahl Says: “Our lack of knowledge about our own past is appalling.
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LOL I wonder if Mount Asgard is home to the Viking Gods?
Asgard was the home of the Norse gods...
Asgard was the home of the Norse gods...
Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
Thor Heyerdahl Says: “Our lack of knowledge about our own past is appalling.
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j watson wrote:I bet Viking chix were hot!
Still are !
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I am 100% Viking. My family tree goes back to the Viking kings, and then to several Danish Kings.
And yes Viking chix are hot.
And yes Viking chix are hot.
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j watson wrote:Queen K, I have not seen it I'm afraid but I do dare to dream. I did google pics of those Viking chix though and it would appear I was right. Are you a Viking descendent?
Best show ever.
Seriously.
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We got hooked watching it on Globaltv and then it was moved to the History Channel, in a pathetic attempt to lure me into subscribing to cable.
Nope, I'll just buy the DVDs, extended version boxed set, with explanations and extra footage when it all comes out. Thanks.
But yes, awesome. It's hard to judge which is more so, Game of Thrones (more nudity hands down) or The Vikings.
Nope, I'll just buy the DVDs, extended version boxed set, with explanations and extra footage when it all comes out. Thanks.
But yes, awesome. It's hard to judge which is more so, Game of Thrones (more nudity hands down) or The Vikings.
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