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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

There will be a program about the vikings tonight on bbc1 8.30pm to 10pm, so pretty long program.

Historian dan snow and space archaeologist dr sarah parcak reveal that the influence of the vikings extended much further than most of us realise.

In north america the two excavate what could be the most westerly viking settlement ever discovered.

Will you also watch it?, it will be an interesting watch

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Vikings went all over the shop, and not just to rape & pillage...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard the vikings found America or was there before columbus.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dan Snow, aka Future Husband number three (behind or possibly alongside Ben Cohen and Daniel Craig). It's nice, as a history geek, that there's some geek totty.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Yeah, Leif Erikson explored the coast of North America c.1000AD and L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland provides archaeological evidence of pre-Columban, European settlement of N. America.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Like anything to do with Vikings so will probably download it tomorrow.

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley


"Yeah, Leif Erikson explored the coast of North America c.1000AD and L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland provides archaeological evidence of pre-Columban, European settlement of N. America. "

I used to frequent the Leif Erikson Centre for Sailors in the Port of Miami, so his influence remains.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I heard the vikings found America or was there before columbus....."
Yes I heard as well that the vikings discovered america.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"I heard the vikings found America or was there before columbus.....Yes I heard as well that the vikings discovered america."

*beats head against brick wall*

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I heard the vikings found America or was there before columbus.....Yes I heard as well that the vikings discovered america.

*beats head against brick wall*

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Yes, just checked and it was right what you said about leif, where Leif Erikson first landed in ca. 1000, approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of christopher columbus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Dan Snow, aka Future Husband number three (behind or possibly alongside Ben Cohen and Daniel Craig). It's nice, as a history geek, that there's some geek totty. "
indeed he is x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Didn't the Souix and Mohicans etc discover America well before any Europeans....?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Didn't the Souix and Mohicans etc discover America well before any Europeans....?"

I qualified my remarks :P

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There will be a program about the vikings tonight on bbc1 8.30pm to 10pm, so pretty long program.

Historian dan snow and space archaeologist dr sarah parcak reveal that the influence of the vikings extended much further than most of us realise.

In north america the two excavate what could be the most westerly viking settlement ever discovered.

Will you also watch it?, it will be an interesting watch "

loving the series Vikings done by the history channel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I still think it's bizarre that you can discover a contingent that was already occupied by an indigenous people.

(Even though those people may also have migrated from Asia)

So Columbus was way off on even more things. The fucking monster.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I heard the vikings found America or was there before columbus.....Yes I heard as well that the vikings discovered america.

*beats head against brick wall*

Yes, just checked and it was right what you said about leif, where Leif Erikson first landed in ca. 1000, approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of christopher columbus."

Recent Archaeological evidence suggests the Romans my have got there before the Vikings

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"I heard the vikings found America or was there before columbus.....Yes I heard as well that the vikings discovered america.

*beats head against brick wall*

Yes, just checked and it was right what you said about leif, where Leif Erikson first landed in ca. 1000, approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of christopher columbus.

Recent Archaeological evidence suggests the Romans my have got there before the Vikings"

Interesting...

Link?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

It would be awful if anyone lowered the tone by mentioning that they find an 8" fossilised poo........... true..... they do..... but don't mention it.

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone


"It would be awful if anyone lowered the tone by mentioning that they find an 8" fossilised poo........... true..... they do..... but don't mention it."

Only if you said they found a fossilised king size mars bar wrapper next to it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll be watching, in the hope that Lagertha (i.e. Katheryn Winnick in the 'Vikings' series) will be in the programme...preferably 'uncovered'!

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex


"It would be awful if anyone lowered the tone by mentioning that they find an 8" fossilised poo........... true..... they do..... but don't mention it.

Only if you said they found a fossilised king size mars bar wrapper next to it"

....held next to a Sky remote or a 1 pint can.

What is a "Space Archaeologist" btw?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It would be awful if anyone lowered the tone by mentioning that they find an 8" fossilised poo........... true..... they do..... but don't mention it.

Only if you said they found a fossilised king size mars bar wrapper next to it

....held next to a Sky remote or a 1 pint can.

What is a "Space Archaeologist" btw?"

Archaeologist of human made items in space

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

Can we please use the correct terminology?

'Viking' is a verb, it's what people did, it means to go sea-raiding. Call it the Old Norse word for pirate.

The people were Danes, Norse and Swedes, collectively known by the language(s) they spoke - Norse.

Sorry, its a bugbear of mine.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I'd like to watch this. It'll be interesting to see what the ancient ShagTonights really were getting up to.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'd like to watch this. It'll be interesting to see what the ancient ShagTonights really were getting up to."
Yes the vikings are my ancestors and it is in my dna, yeah fun to see what they was doing back then.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Can we please use the correct terminology?

'Viking' is a verb, it's what people did, it means to go sea-raiding. Call it the Old Norse word for pirate.

The people were Danes, Norse and Swedes, collectively known by the language(s) they spoke - Norse.

Sorry, its a bugbear of mine."

Ish...

The form "viking" is attested in 1820. The word is a historians' revival; it was not used in Middle English, but it was reintroduced from Old Norse vikingr "freebooter, sea-rover, pirate, viking," which usually is explained as meaning properly "one who came from the fjords," from vik "creek, inlet, small bay" (cognate with Old English wic, Middle High German wich "bay," and second element in Reykjavik).

But Old English wicing and Old Frisian wizing are almost 300 years older than the earliest attestation of the Old Norse word, and probably derive from wic "village, camp" (large temporary camps were a feature of the Viking raids), related to Latin vicus "village, habitation" (see villa).

The connection between the Norse and Old English words is still much debated.

The period of Viking activity was roughly 8c. to 11c.

In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the raiding armies generally were referred to as þa Deniscan "the Danes," while those who settled in England were identified by their place of settlement.

Old Norse viking (n.) meant "freebooting voyage, piracy;" one would "go on a viking" (fara í viking).

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By *uperock99Man
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

The Vikings might of got to the America's first but they never told anyone about it, America is what it is today because of Columbus .

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

It is about to start, should be a good one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Vikings might of got to the America's first but they never told anyone about it, America is what it is today because of Columbus ."

I'm sure all those natives that he raped, slaughtered, sold to slavery and used as dog food will be very happy for their sacrifice.

He also never actually got to American soil.

And he thought he was in India.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"There will be a program about the vikings tonight on bbc1 8.30pm to 10pm, so pretty long program.

Historian dan snow and space archaeologist dr sarah parcak reveal that the influence of the vikings extended much further than most of us realise.

In north america the two excavate what could be the most westerly viking settlement ever discovered.

Will you also watch it?, it will be an interesting watch "

If it's about Scandinavians they can fuck off!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There will be a program about the vikings tonight on bbc1 8.30pm to 10pm, so pretty long program.

Historian dan snow and space archaeologist dr sarah parcak reveal that the influence of the vikings extended much further than most of us realise.

In north america the two excavate what could be the most westerly viking settlement ever discovered.

Will you also watch it?, it will be an interesting watch

If it's about Scandinavians they can fuck off! "

Oi, that's not v nice! We're not all bad!!

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby


"There will be a program about the vikings tonight on bbc1 8.30pm to 10pm, so pretty long program.

Historian dan snow and space archaeologist dr sarah parcak reveal that the influence of the vikings extended much further than most of us realise.

In north america the two excavate what could be the most westerly viking settlement ever discovered.

Will you also watch it?, it will be an interesting watch

If it's about Scandinavians they can fuck off! "
yes it was a good programme the bog Iron was the decider in the end.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

It was a good programme and great result at the end. I hop that more settlements are uncovered elsewhere in North America.

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By *uperock99Man
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Watched a documentary about the native Indians that migrated to north America from Asia about 12,000 years ago then they done further DNA checks and other artifacts that the first settlers in North America were of European descent 25-30,000 years ago. So the Native Indians were of mixed race anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It was a good programme and great result at the end. I hop that more settlements are uncovered elsewhere in North America. "

I enjoyed it too. Who knew my ancestors got to America first!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Yeah it was a really interesting program and as well how far west they went.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yeah it was interesting. I've been to the vikings museum in Roskilde loads of times!!! It changes every time I go. I love it.

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By *uslaffMan
over a year ago

manchester


"Can we please use the correct terminology?

'Viking' is a verb, it's what people did, it means to go sea-raiding. Call it the Old Norse word for pirate.

The people were Danes, Norse and Swedes, collectively known by the language(s) they spoke - Norse.

Sorry, its a bugbear of mine."

Errrrm no,Vikings sounds better,more dramatic.

You'll just have to deal with it.

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