• 1rre
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    1 year ago

    Knew is a strong word

    The norse found it but 500 years is a crazy long time, and they didn’t know it wasn’t just a series of arctic islands

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s reasonable to say they knew. They probably didn’t realize how enormous the Americas were. But it was certainly known that some landmass existed west of Greenland. The Norse settled Greenland around year 1000 and allegedly founded colonies in Newfoundland around that time.