The Vikings Research Paper

Instead of considering, columbus as the discoverer of America, it is advised to think of him as a man who introduced Europeans of the late 15th century to the so called “New World”, and not the discoverer. Yet who discovered it? Vikings, were seafarers, mainly living in the region known as Scandinavia, in which they traded and raided from their Northern European homelands to across, Central and Eastern Europe. Facilitated by advanced sailing techniques such as observation of wind, solar time, and wildlife. Their navigational skills, and using the famous longship, Vikings activities at the time reached the barren seas of the arctic, and North America. The Beginning of the Vikings fame started with Eric the Red, in which discovery was in …show more content…
Eric Discovered the island known as today Greenland. Although the Vikings didn’t just sail there and come back. Vikings pushed the boundaries. This evidence was further corroborated when an account dating back to 1960, researchers and archaeologist found what looks to be a viking settlement. However is there hard evidence? Actually yes, and no. Archaeologist in the region of Newfoundland, have discovered two butternuts, or white walnuts, along with wood from a butternut tree and grapevines. On the contrary, until now, historical evidence has suggested that while the Vikings may have reached Vinland , they didn't actually colonize on what we know today as America. Nevertheless, this journey started with one leader with some huge intentions.
This story begins with a “man”, a old, norse, man. An Icelandic figure that went by the name Leif Eriksson. Son of Eric The Red, and founder of North America. A leader, that set sail almost 500 years before both the chineses, and the most notorious Christopher Columbus. Now it may seem unlikely, and very hard to believe …show more content…
Over, through, and in, and out the stories of these Vikings and what they had supposedly discovered, was torn from them. The legends have been intertwined, twisted, cut off and added too from what really happened. Still the story was eventually written down somewhere. In fact the myth nor authentic story was written down over 217 years ago, back in the early 1800’s. Although even since the time it was written down, more than 800 years have past. So was Vinland a real place? Did the Vikings navigate correctly to reach America? Few historians took it seriously to the possibility of the Vikings reaching North america before Columbus had. Using scientific techniques called “logic and common sense ”, historians concluded that the sagas did not reveal any of the locations that the Vikings allegedly visited. Concluding that the journey, is generally false, and allutamily fake. However, the tales may be full of fact and fable, the sagas can't be ignored. According to Who Was First( By Russell Freedman) they can't be ignored because the sagas contain historical dates of actual events. To explain further, the sagas contain dates, dates of discovery. Approximately within the year 985 greenland was discovered, and how in the late ninth century iceland was uncovered. These all add up, increasing the chances of the legendary Vikings, not vitally being untrue .

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