Greetings!

[rakovsky]

I think that the Viking exploration of North America is cool, and found your threads on the topic in your Information Center.
I also like Native American culture. The Hopi, Pueblo, Mogellon, and Anasazi were an impressive civilization, and their feat of making canals connecting rivers in the Phoenix area is impressive because they were working in the desert.
Cahokia is an impressive city of mounds, and the New England Amerindians had many megalithic structures.
Peace.

[Hoss]

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[Cecilia]

welcome, Charleston! One of my favorite cities in the world!

[Hal Gorges]

Welcome from West Central Florida👍🇺🇸

[rakovsky]

Nice!

[rakovsky]

Thanks for your greetings! I made a post about how the Sagas and archaeology point to regions that the Vikings visited or settled in here:
forums.arrowheads.com/forum/general-discussion-gc5/archaeology-news-reports-discussion-gc43/699253-where-exactly-would-the-locations-for-vinland-s-regions-be-according-to-the-viking-sagas

[Mattern]

Welcome rakovsky. Some believe that the Vikings were the ones who introduced the bow and arrow to the natives. Kim from central Pa.

[SDhunter]

Welcome! Viking history interests me as well.

[rakovsky]

Thanks!
I tried to figure out where the Vikings made their 5 settlements in the Sagas south of Labrador, but got stuck on the issue of where the island of Bjarney would be in real life in Eric the Red's Saga. I made a post about it here:

https://forums.arrowheads.com/forum/general-discussion-gc5/archaeology-news-reports-discussion-gc43/66162-evidence-of-viking-outpost-found-in-canada/page2

[rakovsky]

Welcome! Viking history interests me as well.

The Vikings in Vinland is a fun topic bringing together themes like medieval northern technology and cutlure, a mix of Christianity and Nordic paganism that was in conflict, the meeting and clash of Amerindian and Viking cultures, exploration from cold lands (Greenland, Iceland) of new, warm lands with surprising (for the Vikings) resources.
You can get cool semi-imaginary themes like this one:

with some basis in reality, because the Vikings' 11th century Norse "Maine Penny" from King Olaf has a side with a Christian Cross, and another side with what looks like a dragon head like the figure on the front of Viking ships:

Maine Penny (above)