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Doc
07-19-2013, 09:51 PM
Vikings Possibly Carried Native American to Europe Nov 17, 2011 03:00 AM ET // by AFP (http://www.afp.com)

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THE GIST - DNA analysis reveals that four families in Iceland possess genes typically found in Native Americans or East Asians.
- Genealogical evidence revealed that these families shared a distant ancestor from the same region.
- The Vikings may have brought back a Native American woman with them after they arrived in the New World.
The first Native American to arrive in Europe may have been a woman brought to Iceland by the Vikings more than 1,000 years ago, a study by Spanish and Icelandic researchers suggests.
The findings boost widely-accepted theories, based on Icelandic medieval texts and a reputed Viking settlement in Newfoundland in Canada, that the Vikings reached the American continent several centuries before Christopher Columbus traveled to the "New World."

Read it all: http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/vikings-native-american-woman.htm

CasperParks
07-19-2013, 11:23 PM
Doc,

Interesting article, thanks for sharing it.

Reminds me of that film, "Pathfinder" that came out in 2007.

Doc
07-20-2013, 06:16 AM
Doc,

Interesting article, thanks for sharing it.

Reminds me of that film, "Pathfinder" that came out in 2007.

That was the first thing I thought as I was reading it. :o The vikings in the film were speaking Icelandic, I read somewhere.

CasperParks
07-20-2013, 06:21 AM
I watched this a couple days ago. Long, but very good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maziRFPYU14

Doc
07-20-2013, 06:51 AM
Thanks for posting it. Looks great.