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PREVIEW: From a long conversation with Martyn Whittock, author of the new AMERICAN VIKINGS, asking where is the undiscovered "Vinland" mentioned in the Norse sagas?

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a long conversation with Martyn Whittock, author of the new AMERICAN VIKINGS, asking where is the undiscovered "Vinland" mentioned in the Norse sagas?

1904 Viking romance.

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This is John Bachelor.

0:31.2

Conversation with the author Martin Whittick, his new book American Vikings,

0:35.6

How the North Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America.

0:39.8

Lee Ferguson is the man of around a thousand in the common era. The mystery is he names

0:47.8

landing places how you land Mark, and Vineland.

0:53.0

Vineland is not found, I learned from Martin, and he explains where it might be.

0:58.3

As far south as, as far west as, still looking for Vineland, associated with grapes. That is a clue. It may be a

1:06.2

good clue. Here's Martin to explain. Much longer conversation later on this day.

1:12.4

American Vikings.

1:14.0

But there is, nevertheless, there's strong evidence from the sagas that it was grapes that they were talking about.

1:21.0

They certainly said, we found grapes. and the possibility is that maybe the

1:25.1

fox grape or some other form of wild growing grape now that's not going to be found

1:30.8

alongside self-sewn wheat north of New Brunswick. We could be talking about

1:35.5

Maine, we could be talking about further south in the coast of New England. So although our

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