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    Quote Originally Posted by Red Stag View Post
    "...established powerful colonies in... North America..."

    I think not. The only known Norse site in North America is L'Anse aux Meadows and from the documentaries that I have seen they say that it was only a temporary settlement and that they weren't there for very long. Maybe only a couple of years. The Natives seemed to have chased the Vikings out.
    Greenland is normally considered part of North America. And the only thing that chased the Vikings out of Greenland was climate change.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell View Post
    Greenland is normally considered part of North America.
    To be honest Geoff, I never thought of Greenland as part of North America. Thanks for bringing that fact to our attention.
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    The article seems to based more on feeling than any sort of fact.

    Much of my dad's side of the family came from the Isle of Anglesey, Wales and that Island was occupied by the Norse for at least a century. Anglesey is only two hours ferry ride from Dublin another Norse stronghold. If they were wrought with such terror I don't think that they'd be setting up camp for generations in the Irish sea.

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