Hi everyone, welcome to a very special episode of Dance Notes History.

We've got a crossover episode here with the History Hit Medieval podcast,

which of course inevitably is called Gone Medieval.

It's presented by Dr. Kat Jarman, Matt Lewis, and it's going great guns.

But Kat Jarman and I, little Mexican standoff, because this big news coming out of Newfoundland

about the Vikings and their precise dating at that site, Kat and I,

I have all of each other, none of us blinks, so it's ideal crossover episode.

So this will be going on my feed and her feed. It was great for me,

I had a little co-presenter and one that actually knew what she was talking about.

Unlike your host, Dan Snow. We were both very excited to talk to Big Eater Wallace.

She is an archaeologist, a sort of a legend in the field, really a Norse specialist working

North America. She's put most of her career working for Parks Canada and her best known work is

at Norse Omedo. Google is such a wonderful site. It's on the northern tip of Newfoundland.

It is the most perfect place the Vikings would possibly have built a way station if they're

traveling from their settlements in Iceland, Greenland, into North American continent.

And so sure enough when legendary husband and wife, too, in 1960, started looking for

Viking sites in North America, they looked to the map, they hiked into this point,

Helga and Ann Innisstad, they were found hunts and bumps, they did actually find a Viking settlement.

I have been there, is all the most exciting place I've ever gone, proof that the Vikings

crossed the Atlantic 500 years before. Christopher Columbus, but until now we didn't have reliable

dates, we didn't exactly know when they settled and built also Omedo. But thanks to fantastic

cutting edge isotopic, dendro chronology, I think those things are true. Thanks to that,

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