-Caveat Lector-
Helluland, Markland, and Vinland are well-attested from the sagas. Please
show me where in the sagas the name "Ommerike" occurs. If there were any
truth to this blatant exercise in North European chauvinism, we would find
evidence for the name's use in the sagas. Q.E.D.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kingsbury [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 2:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] Did The Vikings Name America?
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> http://www.orangestreet.demon.co.uk/Vikings.htm
>
>
> Did The Vikings Name America?
>
> <snip>
>
>
> Therefore, it is herewith submitted that the word "America" is
> simply a phonetic derivation of an ancient Norse compound word
> "omme-rike". In its simplest translation from the largely
> four-letter language of the Viking discoverers of the New World,
> it means "the remotest land". The various parts of the New World
> were referred to in the Icelandic Sagas as Helluland (Stoneland),
> Markland (Woodland) and Vineland (Wineland). "Omme-rike" would
> have been the logical name to apply to the great land mass as a
> whole.
>
> <snip>
>
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