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Vikings Landed in Newfoundland, Canada - 1960 Proof


This is a fun silent movie which I consider accurate historically
until the end. The tower at the end was built in 1700s in Rhode Island
but NOT by the Vikings. This was a debatable issue in 1928 when this movie
was made.
Proof of the Vikings landing In North America came in 1960. Archeological
diggings found proof that the Vikings landed at northern tip of Newfoundland
in Canada at a place called "L'Anse aux Meadows". It is now a famous historical
site. I saw some of the Vikings' tools on a recent visit to St'John's in
Newfoundland. The Vikings didn't stay long - they left after several years
mainly due to fighting with the Indians or more likely lack of food, half
freezing to almost death and boredom. They might have stayed if they had
Cable TV? By the way, the Viking landings were in the year 1,000 AD approximately.

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"The Viking" was filmed in 1928; thirty two years before the discovery of L'Anse aux Meadows settlement was unearthed in Newfoundland. My guess is the writer had heard all the theories about Viking exploration and figured there are grapes in Rhode Island and there is that strange stone structure so it has to be Vinland.

I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I saw the ending. I expected to see the Vikings establishing a settlement and possibly some theory about why there efforts failed they showed this stone building in Rhode Island which is something of a fixture on the History International Channel along with Ancient Aliens, Free Mason conspiracies and the unrealized 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The fact the structure was probably a wind mill built during the 1700s by the British is not cool enough for cable so they've claimed it was a church built by the Knights Templar after they hid their treasure on Oak Island or something like that. Not even they have ever claimed it built by the Vikings.

Then there are those horned helmets. Most Viking movies have the characters wearing the headgear even though there's no evidence they did so in real life. What was strange was the female characters were also wearing horns. Talk about strange.
TAG LINE: True genius is a beautiful thing, but ignorance is ugly to the bone.

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