O segredo mais sombrio dos vikings acaba de ser encontrado enterrado em Minnesota

The Darkest Secret of the Vikings Has Just Been Found Buried in Minnesota In 1898, a Swedish immigrant named Olof Ohman was clearing land in western Minnesota when his plow became stuck in a ninety-pound gray stone slab at the roots of an old, trembling poplar. Carved into its face, in an alphabet that had nothing to do with being in the middle of the American continent, were Scandinavian runes. The inscription described eight Geats and twenty-two Norsemen on an exploratory voyage from Vinland westward in 1362, one hundred and thirty years before Columbus reached the Caribbean, and ended with ten of their men found blood-red and dead. Traditional archaeology called it a hoax within a decade and practically stopped searching. What nobody tells you is that the rejection was based almost entirely on runic forms that linguists in 1910 said could not be medieval, and that Henrik Williams, one of the world's leading living authorities on runic inscriptions at Uppsala University, has now publicly argued that these dismissals were far too hasty and called for the case to be reopened. Then there's an 11th-century Norwegian silver coin, taken from a coastal archaeological site in Maine in 1957, that nobody has ever satisfactorily explained. And, more recently, metagenomic sequencing of sediment cores from a forgotten marginal lake in Minnesota found low-frequency Scandinavian genetic signatures in layers dating precisely to the Medieval Warm Period, when the Vinland Sagas say Norse expeditions were active in North America. I find the institutional resistance to this evidence almost as interesting as the evidence itself, and this video addresses both.