Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- In our interview with Gordon Campbell, we chat all about his new book Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth. The book tells two stories. One story is that of the Norse proceeding in the 10th and 11th century from mainland Scandinavia to the Faroes and Iceland and Greenland, and from Greenland they sail, hunting in many cases to what is now the Eastern Arctic in Canada. And they famously, as we have known since the 1060s, had a sort of camp in Northern Newfoundland at a site called L'Anse aux Meadows.
The other story is the appropriation of the first story by Canadians and Americans who want to have been discovered by people with white North European origins rather than by Columbus, who was Italian, sailed for Spain, and did all kinds of other suspicious things. So, there is a racial narrative, which is potentially pernicious in the huge attraction of having the Norse discover America. I became interested in the attraction as much as I did in the actual voyages themselves.
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0:00 Introduction
0:47 What is the book all about?
2:25 Bringing the two narratives together
4:20 Was it difficult disentangling the two narratives?
6:26 Columbus in America
7:30 Evidence and Artefacts (Real and Fake)
11:22 L'Anse aux Meadows
17:00 Fake Runic Inscription, Nova Scotia
20:40 Erik the Red and Leif the Lucky
27:00 Greenland Colonies
38:00 Outro
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Leif Erikson www.worldhistory.org/Leif_Eri...
Vinland www.worldhistory.org/Vinland/
Viking Age Greenland www.worldhistory.org/article/...
Vikings www.worldhistory.org/Vikings/
European Colonization of the Americas www.worldhistory.org/European...
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What was the most surprising thing you learnt from Gordon in this interview?
Everything.
I graduated grade 12 in 2001. We actually learned about Eric the Red as being the earliest known European contact to 'N.A.' More specifically eastern Canada. And I remember when we got to learning about US history the teacher saying 'and this is what the US believes...' lol.
A fascinating talk about the politics and absurdities of the founding stories of the Norse “discovery “. I am a citizen of the USA and find this interesting. Thank you for posting.
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Very cool story - love this channel!
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I’d love to know how to figure out if my theory is correct for where they actually lived……
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means that the norsemen never reached canada ?
They did reach Newfoundland (a part of Canada), that is certain. However it is less certain whether they reached the mainland or how far south they went.
do the Americans (note the imperialistic appropriation of a name that covers actually the whole north and south of the Americas) know they are named after an Italian as well? perhaps they should then rename themselves and call their countries Norselandia...
“Heller”
33:02
You seem distraught
I find it curious that Gordon Campbell, an ‘academic, chooses to use population descriptive words like “white” to describe non-native (& non-Italian) people’s. This entirely muddles academic discussions with non-science based descriptive language separating people’s origins solely by the melanin “coloring” of their ski, which, in itself has no basis in actual fact.
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Um…it is commonly accepted here in the US that the Indigenous built the mounds. Been that way for a couple decades now. Nobody ever in my lifetime uttered such nonsense. In my 45 years alive the mounds that are a few miles from my house are called the Mikosvkee Indian Mounds. One of my uncles helped FSU excavate them and made sure the university did so as respectfully as possible as he is Creek/Mvskoke himself and also employed by FSU in archeology. Maybe at ONE time, but not in my 45 years of living. 🤷🏻♂️