Ridgeway By Kelty Moab

The first Europeans in America



A great people of Nordic explorers

In 1960 the 'Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, archaeologist Anne Stine discovered in Canada in the northern part of the 'island of Newfoundland, the remains of an ancient Viking village . The site containing the remains will be baptized Anse aux Meadows.
L 'Anse aux Meadows consisted of a dozen buildings, including a forge and a sawmill,
and is considered to be either the first settlement built by the Vikings after landing or a center constructed following the escape from an attack of hostile natives.
But this archaeological site is not the 'only evidence in favor of the "Viking thesis, two Scandinavian manuscripts of the thirteenth century in fact, known as the" Saga of the Greenlanders "and" Saga of Erik the Red, "tell of five different expeditions by Groe nlandia to Vinland, the "land of vines."
After the map was to ass egnare to ancient Chinese navigators the title of discoverer of America, miserably over the archive is false, the primacy of 'discoverers' of the America therefore it is the Vikings.
But who were these Vikings?
The word "Viking" comes from "Vik" whose translation is "bay bay."
for Viking therefore means q uei sailors belonging to the tribe warriors Nordic-Scandinavian who "came out of the fjord" with their particular ship and whose purpose was not only to the raid or robbery, but also to explore and colonize new lands and trade with other nations. Very often in history is highlighted the destructive effect of the movement Viking Europe Western and neglects the contribution it has made to the nations in trade , of \u200b\u200bdiscovery and colonization. Unfortunately, the Vikings have rarely felt the need or the desire to pass on knowledge and makes cts written, so they have been given an incomplete picture of the contemporary world, dark and deformed. The Viking had a vague idea of \u200b\u200btheir country. Although united by ties such as language and religion which bears testimony to their common Nordic origin, barely sensed the existence of an independent nationality: we can speak more than anything else then to tribes. They were a people who lived on commerce, crafts, livestock, and piracy colonization; were a people of indomitable warriors, within which the individual had a certain value and this value was determined according to its capabilities. Among the many tribes that stretched from Germany to Scandinavia, the kingdom founded in the early ninth century Denmark, Sweden, fifty years later and Norway shortly before 900, were powerful as well as extensive. The Vikings established routes with Europe, the Baltic lands, Russia, Britain, Ireland and colonized Iceland and Greenland, Labrador, Baffin Island and as I mentioned earlier is now considered certain that have also discovered the northern Canada and North America.

One of the legendary figures tied to the same myth of the Vikings and their art de lla to navigate and to reach new lands and frontiers, it is certainly that of E rik Rosso, a native of Norway, who is credited with the discovery of Greenland in the same way it is now certain that the Americas were already known by the more enterprising among his countrymen.
Erik, first and foremost, however, was a great navigator. He tried a rich fishing ground and hospitable, and found (Iceland). Then, following an act of violence which sanctioned the banishment from his homeland, Erik came with a long trip to board his ship until Ammassalik on the east coast of Greenland, just below the Arctic Circle.
's son Erik, Leif Ericsson, took seriously the stories of Herjólfsson Bjarni, a Viking explorer who claimed to have found the land to the west of Greenland (in 986 ) .
He decided to buy the ship Herjólfs son had used for his trip, he took a crew of 35 men and set out to research about the new territory.
In 1001Leif QUL find out what the story was true, and named this land Vinland (from wine in old Norwegian = plain, and land = Earth), which corresponds to the current Newfoundland. Torvald
His brother also was the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River, where he unfortunately lost his life.
But in the end this makeshift settlement lasted only a few years, the Vikings knew that it was not possible to live under constant siege, due to the 'hostility of the natives, and then decided to return to Greenland.
But it was still a leak, but a departure with weapons and baggage, not an escape.
A test of this hypothesis is the fact that archaeologists have found only 99 iron nails, broken nail a whole, a spindle, a bronze pin, a bead glass, a grinding stone, a few pieces of carved wood and an iron to knit.
miserable things forgotten or purposely left then.
will have to wait, however, almost five centuries since Columbus "discovered" actually connected to the rest of the world.