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Wolf Frankula

(3,851 posts) Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:57 PM Oct 2025

Happy Leif Eriksson Day to our Scandinavian Friends

He came to America 492 years before Columbus. He didn't get lost and think he'd landed in India.

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Happy Leif Eriksson Day to our Scandinavian Friends (Original Post) Wolf Frankula Oct 2025 OP

He also didn't decimate the native populations EYESORE 9001 Oct 2025 #1

Indeed Vogon_Glory Oct 2025 #2

EYESORE 9001

(29,883 posts)

1. He also didn't decimate the native populations

Reply to Wolf Frankula (Original post)

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 01:03 PM

Oct 2025

He saved that for European towns

Vogon_Glory

(10,353 posts)

2. Indeed

Reply to Wolf Frankula (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 12:18 PM

Oct 2025

As someone of primarily English ancestry, I suspect that I have traces of Nordic ancestry, I see no reason to hang my head in shame or ignore the fact that Vikings could and did sail to North America and did it without the letters of marque by royal sponsors giving them the right to plunder and enslave any locals they encountered.

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