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Wolf Frankula

(3,798 posts) Thu Oct 9, 2025, 11:57 AM Oct 9

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 9 OP

He also didn't decimate the native populations EYESORE 9001 Oct 9 #1

Indeed Vogon_Glory Oct 10 #2

EYESORE 9001

(29,333 posts)

1. He also didn't decimate the native populations

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Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:03 PM

Oct 9

He saved that for European towns

Vogon_Glory

(10,140 posts)

2. Indeed

Reply to Wolf Frankula (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 11:18 AM

Oct 10

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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