Vikings in America

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Vikings were one of the great exploring peoples of the past. They travelled east along the rivers to the Silk Road, they explored west across the seas to the United Kingdom, they settled Iceland and Greenland and famously reached North America. L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada has been identified as a Viking site, but it seems that this was only a staging post for longer journey's but where they were headed beyond this point we don't know. This leaves open the tantalising possibility of finding further Viking settlement in North America. Gordon Campbell, Emeritus Professor and Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester joins me on the podcast to discuss the Viking relationship with North America and whether we might one day find a missing settlement.

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0:00.0	Tom Hanks is Otto. He's seen it all.
0:02.6	Otto?
0:03.3	Otto?
0:04.0	O-T-T-O.
0:05.2	You don't hear that name very often, I do.
0:07.4	He's a man who gets easily annoyed.
0:09.3	What are you doing?
0:10.2	Parallel parking. Parallel the Wattee.
0:12.4	Has had enough.
0:13.4	Are you always his unfriendly?
0:15.4	I am not unfriendly.
0:16.6	Okay, you're like a warm cuddle.
0:18.2	But he's finding his joy again in the most unlikely place.
0:21.4	I'm not sure about this.
0:23.6	He's gonna be very fun.
0:24.8	A man called Otto, only in cinemas now.
0:32.7	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Danstowe's History.
0:34.9	You know I love maritime history.
0:36.9	I love the collection of Scandinavian seafaring peoples
0:41.6	that we refer to as the Vikings.
0:44.0	I have to forgive me if you object to that term.
0:46.9	The Vikings, as we've learned in recent podcast with
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