Evidence found of early American seafaring

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Yes Abramelin, I have a lot of fun searching the web... Libraries are few and far between around here , and small... so the web is a precious resource for learning a few basic facts about this and that. .. you just have to be critical.. and double check and verify things . Books have good info and bad info too. I liked your tip about the source links at the bottom of wiki pages... and.... of putting a search in "quotes" .. sometimes if you word things right you can really hit the jackpot! A good tip: get Kindle for PC and Adobe Digital Editions and you can also download many of the Google and ... [More]

A good tip: get Kindle for PC and Adobe Digital Editions and you can also download many of the Google and Project Gutenberg Books. It really broadens the possibilities. Thanks questionmark, i appreciate the tip. I can only get a very slow dial up connection here in frog holler though.. which makes a lot of things impossible.. or nearly so. I noticed you shared a great link the other day for downloading google books.. but.. most things like that just won't work here... i usually loose connection before it's downloaded if it's much over a MB or so ! So i rarely try ... Very limiting! Basically n... [More]

Thorvald (brother of Leif Ericson) in year 1004 was killed by native americans. Do we know which tribe was that?

Thorvald (brother of Leif Ericson) in year 1004 was killed by native americans. Do we know which tribe was that? NO, because things shifted a little between the time of Ericson and somebody willing to record history to show up again. In fact we don't even know where in Vinland it happened. That leaves about every tribe that settled between Newfoundland and New York State.

Suspects? Theories?

Suspects? Theories? Many, but I won't participate in it because we don't have the slightest hint. But I guess about every "historian" of any of the possible tribes will tell you how they prepared Thorvald over low fire and invented a new BBQ sauce in the process.

Suspects? Theories? Probably the 'skraeling' tribe...