Hi

Are you Canadian?

How did they reach America, they took a CAB,OR A BUSS

the simple answer is they walked there, but there's more first they walked onto a ship, then they walked back and forth tending to the ship, then they walked off the ship, so they walked there!!!! xD

No one believes Columbus was the first to discover America. His discovery is important because he was the first by a European power that had the capability to take advantage of the said discovery.

They didn’t discover it though

​@@TheRealForgetfulElephantif you find something that you and everybody you know doesn't know about, you can use the word discovered at that point

​@@TheRealForgetfulElephantI'd advise you to look up the definition of the word "presentism"

@@TheRealForgetfulElephant Did you even watch the video?

They are also great at ruling the land they conquered.

Iceland is part of NA and Euro continents.

What if people already inhabited North America?

@@scottgalbraith7461 1. People already inhabited NA in the form of indigenous indians. 2. Europeans also permanently inhabited NA since at the very least 770 in Iceland since Iceland is part of NA.

@@randolphtiangco6239 sarcasm

@@randolphtiangco6239 You know exactly what lerneanlion meant. Your attempts at "correcting" them are not helpful.

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@Sefrunson What part of Norway were you born?

Icelanders are norwegian. 99% of the norse who settled iceland came from norway

@@ericredbear425 Bergen

It was in space of two weeks, first the battle of Stamford Bridge and then the battle of Hastings. Harold could have won the second battle as well.

@@korsarz95 If you read up on how the battle of hastings went down Harold actually almost won there too. The problem started after some of his troops made the fatal mistake of deciding to break their own shield wall and charge after some of William's retreating troops. The Normans counterattacked and exploited the fresh gap in Saxon defenses which transpired into chaos leading to Harold's death and subsequent Anglo Saxon defeat. One mistake and the very face of history changed forever...

learnt that with oversimplified

european's point of view is the only one that really matters tho

@@marusdod3685 no not really, Europeans are just humans like everyone else, they don’t matter more or less then anyone else.

@@marusdod3685are you a troll or do you genuinely believe that? Can you elaborate why?

@@xpena7420 it's a european world, you merely reside in its shadow

Both are wrong, Asians discovered North America. You could walk across From Russia to modern day Alaska due to ice caps. Hence why you have the aboriginals, Asian docents who climatized to American climates.

And he actually put things on the map for others around the world to eventually go there.

Columbus had better funding and was backed by a country. Leif Ericson was just himself his family and a few comrades.

Lol, and that is why the continent is named after Amerigo Vespucci:)

@@pintiliecatalin Because Columbus didn't go further than the islands he "found".. Amerigo Vespucci harbored at the mainland. Todays North America.

@@oneshothunter9877 That is not actually the reason. The reason of the name is because Amerigo was the one that actually realised it was a new continent. And then a german cartographer used his name to mark the new continent. When Columbus reached Bahamas he thought that he was on an asian island off the coast of china.

Not really. Their ships were.

bUiLt difFeReNtLy

@@oneshothunter9877 Also as a people, they really were. Bigger, stronger due to physical labour and rowing plus a high protein diet plus culturally, exploration was a large part of their identity.

Look at them now !!!

@@Alastair_ Uhm, yes, to a certain degree you're probably right. They were taller than most of Europeans back then. But new(er) science has shown that they were just as worm ridden (ring worms and other parasites) as every other human in Europe. I hope you don't watch too much "Vikings" and think that's the way they were.

Iceland didn't have any indigenous people.. The people there were viking settlers as was probably his Mother, nothing interracial. When people say Columbus discovered America they mean he put it on the map for the rest of the world to know about and go to. Yes Vikings more than likely reached the Americas before him, but there's no "legally discovered" under some law and we have no idea what happened to them.

@@muddyhotdog4103 Lol!!!If Iceland have no indegenous or Icelandic people,then why there is a country,good friend?Please go to his Wikipedia and you would read his early life where his father was a native Norwegian but his mother was a native Icelandic,so Interracial existed,good friend!!!The reason for them saying Cristopher Columbus sir discovered America,they either tarnished their history or did not even know about the history,good friend!!!Most of the historians failed to even state this as the real truth which was a total shambolic on theirs but thank goodness,this history channel's admin stated the fact accurately,good friend!!!🙏🏻

When did the Vikings discover the US? These are places in Canada.

@@j2174when did Columbus

@@KuntryBoyCitySlick Colombia never set foot in the US either. 😉 The Vikings had settlements in a few parts of Canada. John Cabot discovered Canada in 1497.

LIES...

sure,sure...

There’s tribes in South America who mention “the cloud people “ that are described as very tall and blonde many people believe they might be talking about Vikings but who knows .

The natives of Newfoundland, the Beothuck, the natives that interacted with the vikings are extinct. Good story though.

​@@dariusalexandru9536you seem mad

Yes it has been verified from resreach now that they inter bred

Yes, I agree with you, as I find this most likely of all hypotheses. It is also a well supported hypothesis, by scholars. The leading proponent of this hypothesis is Helge Ingstad, himself. Helge Ingstad and his wife, Anne Stine, and their daughter Benedikte, are officially the archeologists who found and actually discovered the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows, during eight expeditions with excavations in the years 1961-1968. Ingstad agreed fully with the Swedish archaeologist Sven Söderberg's hypothesis about the interpretation of the 'vin' section of the 'Vinland' name, and tied it to the location by his archeological discovery. Ingstad also received support for the hypothesis from the Norwegian philologist Magnus Olsen, at the time. (Researchers believe that the flora description of "native wheat fields and vines" in the Saga of Eric the Red, which is not accurate by any means and contradicts the saga Flateyjarbók, is likely referring to findings in the St Lawrence bay, further south and of subsequent exploration). Ingstad writes about the etymology of 'vin' in his book Landet under Leidarstjernen (1959), translates to 'The land under the leadning star'. Etymology of vín: meadow, grassland, natural field, if I trace back to the dialect of western Norse, to Leiv Eiriksson's ancestral origin: the birth place of his father Eiríkr Rauði (Erik the Red), Leiv Eriksson's fater, in Western Norway, born 950, died ca 1003 Greenland. It originates even before the Viking Age, and many of the names are still in use. There are still many places in Norway with 'vin' in their names, some only in part, today: e.g. Vinje, Bruvin, Granvin in Voss, Vereide (Vineid), Økern (Økrvin) in Oslo, and not at least Bjørgvin (the city of Bergen, today, which was the capitol and royal seat of Norway, centuries ago). But it is not limited to only Norway, as 'vin' was a common word in both West Norse and East Norse languages. Sweden: e.g. Ven (and probably many more). 'Vin' is also used in place names (farms and fields) in the Orkneys (Orkn = seal, ey = island in Norse language), and Shetland (aka Hjaltland in Norse language), where Norse people from Western Norway colonized, bringing their dialects and vocabulary, in the 800s. And same about Helland and Markland: there are still a few places in Norway called Markland, and about 30 places named Helland here in Norway, including some name variations, according to Statens Kartverk. Sources: Helge Ingstad (1959), Schmidt & Gundersen (2016), and Statens Kartverk Stedsnavnregister (National register of place names).

@@norsenomad Thank you !

@@paulingvar You're welcome! Genuinely interesting subject for us, Scandinavians.

Columbus didn't even think he discovered a new continent, he thought he was in Asia, Amerigo Vespucci is the guy who proclaimed the new continents and got his name put on them. Also, colonisation and genocide of the native people is not a competition, and your comment gives me the feeling you like Columbus quite a bit. If you can say one thing about the Vikings, it's that they left and didn't return. Also, at least they knew they weren't in Asia, so they had better knowledge of the globe than Columbus.

@@Gaelic-Spirit I get the feeling you cry a lot in comment sections.. Um, sure i guess? But yes, Vespucci went there why and after who again? Yup, history was a violent place, so were the natives, it is what it is.. And actually colonisation WAS competitive lol, and I doubt the Vikings had a clue where they were either (i feel you must like those Vikings, and the pillaging- murdering they did, not cool man jk ;)... Again, is what it is.. I couldn't care less about Columbus tbh, it was just a factual historical statement that seems to get lost on others. Now, go my triggered one -cry, cry even more about it while you make assumptions about others and virtue signal.. Gooo, the world needs you!

​@@Gaelic-Spiritwhat the hell are you talking about. Columbus was going to India to get spices. The trip was paid for by Spain. Of course he quickly realized it was not India when he saw the place. Are you just joking or plain stupid

@@Gaelic-Spirit everything you just said is wrong haha

This is such an American perspective. No one outside of the US cares about Columbus.

North or South America? LOL, yanks .

Good point!

Iceland is torn by the famous rift between North America and Eurasia, Reykjavik being on the N. American side. So Lief Erikson was BORN in N. North America, give his mother credit for beating him to his greatest achievement.

@@karlbmileslmao Iceland is more European though

Right here dude 😂

yeah

Because it was unknown to them at the time.

maybe because they just didnt knew something else could exist?

Ofc that's how it happened. You go to an unknown land then later ppl find out about it more. Still it's a discovery if you are the first person from another distant place to go there

The indies ?? I hope you meant India. You know that country in Asia where Europeans where sourcing spices from

@@wondermaid6452 he didn’t think he was in india, and that’s not where he was going. He was trying to get to the East Indies and found the West Indies. India wasn’t a word until England colonized the kingdoms that lived in modern day india in the 1800’s. The spice trade was located in the Dutch East Indies

That is not true, Columbus and everyone else knew since the third voyage (Columbus made 4 voyages) and many people was telling him since the second. I remind you that unlike the vikings, Columbus knew where he wanted to go (to the west, under parallel 30º north, which happens to be roughly the latitude of China), he took measurements, created navigation charts and maps of the coast of the American continent that were gradually increasing as the subsequent Spanish explorers were discovering more of the continent. Vikings never dared to loose sight of the coast longer than 2 or 3 days, they did coastal navigation mainly because didn't have the navigation knowledge and instruments necesarry to cross by the center a huge ocean, completely unknown for the mankind as Columbus did. It takes a lot of bravery and seamanship to do that.

The Sagas are real treasure trove.

@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 They truly are one of the greatest records of the past we have, on par with the ancient epics of the Greeks, Romans. Thank the gods for it's and other record's preservation and the great people who preserved them.

Not proven.

"Life" can do.

I'd say Leyf, but certainly not Lief as pronounced in the video. ( English speakers need to learn the actual vowels, and no "W" is not a vowel in any other language.)

I still don't get it , if Greenland was settled by Vikings , why do they look more like Russian siberians or Asians than Europeans

@@Krankenwagen571 The last norse settlement on Greenland disappeared in the mid 15th century for unknown and mysterious reasons.

@a.r.h9919 Unless the Vikings were also trading vaccines for smallpox and measles, I don't think that stuff would have made much of a difference. European settlers met a much weaker resistance by the locals not because of a technology imbalance, but because disease had already ravaged the continents, killing somewhere between 50-90% of the population.

@@saladmcjones7798this is what lots of people don’t understand or know

There might have been, climate was a lot warmer during the viking age.

Cowboys got to the moon and they were most likely viking descendants, with the gene of traveling to unknown places.

'Vikings' was not good history, but it was still pretty good entertainment. Good acting and the soundtrack is 1 of the best I've ever heard on a TV series.

He was Norweigen in the show, not a Dane lol, but yeah he went to Iceland first, but it was Kjetill Flatnose who remained in Greenland

The Phoenicians also reversed the Atlantic ocean and discovered America. Their issue is that they did not document it, and promulgated, and send other for nations in a form of identity of a nation state that sustained itself where there is a population that can sit there, and say yes, we were Phoenicians at one time with a language, history, and a set of traditions and regular trade in communication to Europe. Those are the people that get the claim that they discovered a territory. Remember, alanguage is a Dialects with an army and the navy There are lots of excellent languages like Catalan, or Sardinian, or Corsican, on the host of other languages like Scots and West Frisian and elfdalian who have a written alphabet and the grammar instead of literature, and no nation state that identifies with them

LMAO same 🤣

What evidence have you got of that? Because if you have none, that is just a tale, a legend, same as the sagas.

@@jonayz8655 History books, Spent my life reading them, and if you do the same, you'll find out. Read about the Basque whale hunting in the St Lawrence river, then read about Jacques Cartier and the name and occupation of his crew. All of this is recorded.

Columbus was lost and called aboriginal people Indians because he thought he was in India. Unfortunately this mistake sticks to them to many things to this day ie Indian summer, Indian people etc.

@@fastnbulbouss I know about that tale.because it is just that a tale. A book which tells fairy tale about the past isnt necesarily a history book. Nowadays is fashionable to demerit Columbus discovery without providing any evidence. Why didn't the Basques settle in America then? What a nonesense....

@@carlnelson697 Columbus wasn't lost, he just thought that hehad arrived to Asia, because that was the aim of tje voyage, but since the third voyage he knew he was in a new continent. It is not her fault that the.next generations kept on using the word indian, which isnot an insult, by the way. When you have registered exactly your position in the globe latitide plus longitude and even haveapped the place it cannot be said that you were «lost»

I thought something similar about the Pig War from Hey Arnold. Who could've guessed this actually happened in real life?

There is a dude who's last name is Rambo (yes like the movie) who can trace his ancestry too Swedish colonists in America that interbred with the natives in the 17th century.

Mansa Musa? Not proven.

@@oneshothunter9877 not Mansa Musa is his brother " Abu Bakr" Not proven. by westernt world but proven by african and arab world

@@VisionInterpretation Interesting. May I ask for where to look for evidence? I'm a bit of a history buff, so.. very interesting if I could see some proof. No folklore tails or something like that, real proof.

@@oneshothunter9877 search in wiki or google this name Abou Bakr II (Mansa)

............Transatlantic expeditions British professor Ivan van Sertima and Malaysian researcher Gaoussou Diawara believe Abu Bakr II sailed to the New World. Van Sertima cites a summary of Columbus's journal, written by Bartolomé de las Casas, according to which the purpose of Columbus's third voyage was to verify both the claim of King John II of Portugal that "canoes were discovered coming from the coast of Guinea [West Africa] and he sailed west with goods" and the claim of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola that "black people came from the south and from the southeast. whose spears were made of a metal called guanine, of which it was calculated that of its 32 parts, 18 were of gold, 6 of silver and 8 of copper. However, most modern archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, linguists, and other experts on the pre-Columbian era maintain that there is no evidence that such an expedition reached the Americas, and that there is no enough evidence to suggest that there was contact between Africa and the New World at some point in the pre-Columbian era, for example, no actual African artifacts have ever been found in archaeological research in the New world.

The Knights Templar's might just have heard the sagas and the sagas could have reached Columbus ears.

Unfortunately there is no physical evidence, just experiments that prove that it would have been theoretically possible with 6th century Irish technology before whiskey was invented.

@@SmokingLaddy he spoke of a land of fire and ice. An obvious reference to Iceland.

@@ClannCholmain We are talking about America here.

@@SmokingLaddy my point is, there was no physical evidence that the Irish were the first to arrive in Iceland until relatively recently either. The evidence is dated a full 200 years after St Brendan had died.

It was recorded in the early 1100s that Papar were in Iceland when Vikings first arrived, hardly breaking news. There is no physical evidence they were there, only written.

when me and my grandmother where young boys we used to play chicken with your uncle and Leif , using sail boats.

send your CV to Leif@tilvalhall.åsg@@A_R_B_G