HIST 2710 Lecture 2: Early European Contact
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There are legends about different sailors making their way to the new world. They go back all the way too the bronze age to the middle ages, but none of them have solid evidence to base this off of. The norse are recognized as the first europeans to come to na in about 1000 ce. The norse describe several voyages to north america. From the 9-10th century, they lead the sea empire. He lived in norway, and was exiled from norway for murdering somebody. He went to iceland ,and then was excited again for murdering someday again, feeling to greenland. He was the first to go to greenland in 985 ce. He found it a reasonable place with pasture land, fjords, game animals, ocean life, etc. He figured this would be a good place for a settlement. He went back to iceland, gathering 15 shiploads of people, and founded two settlements on the west coast of.
