Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world

• Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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    • Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I think a lot of people don’t know about the settlements. I’ve never been myself, but I’d love to go someday. I want to go walk around it, and see what they saw.

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