Pat McBride wrote:
Yup, they made it all the way to the eastern central part of the U.S.,
western New York State if memory serves. There was an article in the
Readers Digest about a year or so ago; apparently they found an
archeological site that had artifacts that were Viking (Norse) in origin.
They also found runes carved in rock, or on some of the rocks.
Interesting thing is, there are remnants of Viking visits all up and down
the Eastern Seaboard of North America. But they wouldn't tell anybody about
it, Eric the Red called Greenland 'Greenland' because it's mostly covered in
ice. And he called Iceland 'Iceland' because it's climate isn't too bad,
it's green, and volcanic in origin. Eric was smart that way, wonder if
George 'Dubbya' Bush is related to him. It's amazing what stretching the
truth can do.
Colonna is supposed to be the Italian version of Colon; I really can't say
because all the Italian language I know is the Latin I learned in high
school, and a few words that a female friend taught me when I was much
younger. And also unmarried.
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2008/06/07 02:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [social] Hillary finally quits
Pat McBride wrote:
Now, Mexico is a place I'd really like to visit. They've come up with
historical facts that Mexico was visited by the Europeans (mostly
Portugese,
Spanish, and Vikings) during the late 13th century and the early 14th
century.
Vikings? That can't be right. To my knowledge the Vikings never made it
past Newfoundland.
There was an artifact found about 100 years ago IIRC called the
Kensington Runestone. It was long assumed to be as fake as Piltdown
Man. But recently a more detailed analisys has shown that it is
probably genuine. It was found in Minnesota.
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