The Viking Route From Greenland Into North America - The Little Ice Age

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Temperature Fluctuations in Greenland and the Arctic.

The current theory is that when the Norse settlements in Greenland which endured for around 500 yrs roughly centered on the year 1250, were abandoned due to the encroachment of colder weather.

Large File.

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.

Thorvald Eiriksson - Þorvaldr Eiríksson.

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.

The Saga of Thorvald Eriksson.

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.

IEC Rasmussen - Sommernat under den Grønlandske Kyst circa Aar 1000.

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Claim - Leif Eriksson Discovered North America 500 years Before Columbus.

We say LE never "discovered" America since it was not lost, nor were the Vikings the first Europeans to go to America .. the large number of Roman wrecks on the Honduran coast attest to numerous vessels driven across the Atlantic Ocean, surmise just as many survived the passage and sailed straight back bringing news with them, whose reports were recorded and logged by the shipping companies of the day, a group that has been notoriously reticent across the ages to share their knowledge.

Google.

The main source was a tract prepared by a historical society in Honduras that had maps and photographs and listed about nineteen sites, which has disappeared in toto from the internet .. it had links to confirmed and suspected Roman and pre Roman shipwreck sites from as far south as Brazil to Florida and points north.