When the VIKINGS Reached the Americas: 400 Years Before Columbus | Ancient Architects
发布时间 2022-03-19 19:02:10 来源
摘要
This video is a bit of a change of scene compared my usual content but it’s history, and it’s a period of time I personally find more interesting than most, and that’s the Viking era.
A few years ago I did one of those MyHeritage DNA tests and discovered I was 58% English, 5.8% Irish, Scottish and Welsh, and a whopping 36.2% Scandinavian, which likely indicates Viking ancestry.
My hometown of Leicester, in the heart of England, was once one of the most important towns of the Danelaw, a region that was ruled by the Vikings in the late 9th century AD.
So my interest in the Vikings is personal, but also because I love history and this really is a fascinating era to study. With that in mind, I really wanted a record of last year’s major Viking discovery on the Ancient Architects channel, a confirmed date for when the first Europeans reached North America.
No, it wasn’t Christopher Columbus in 1492, it was the Vikings more than 400 years earlier – and the specific date was 1021 AD. Watch the video to learn more!
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Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58996186
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3518739/Did-Vikings-discover-America-Settlement-unearthed-Newfoundland-suggests-Scandinavian-warriors-set-foot-New-World-500-years-Columbus.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/newfoundland-vikings-10195.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03972-8.pdf
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/decouvrir-discover
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1907986116
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