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• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Knew is a strong word

  The norse found it but 500 years is a crazy long time, and they didn’t know it wasn’t just a series of arctic islands

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  • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s reasonable to say they knew. They probably didn’t realize how enormous the Americas were. But it was certainly known that some landmass existed west of Greenland. The Norse settled Greenland around year 1000 and allegedly founded colonies in Newfoundland around that time.

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    • clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s more than allegedly. They founded settlements here.

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      • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nice, last I’d heard we were going off of written records. Didn’t know there was physical evidence.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Norse may have been there, but there was no lasting impact. No records, no memory, no further exploration …. Compare that with the impact of Columbus’ voyage

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