1267 Taxes in Natura

A letter from the archbishop of Nidros to the pope informs his Eminence that the overseas realm is so large that it will take 5 years to collect the taxes. Payments are in the form of marine products and animal hides (furs)most of which come from North American mammals such as beavers, foxes, and black bears. Thus, thriving Norse colonies are indicated for the East Coast region of North America.

(note the date! Wtf!)

http://www.marcopolovoyages.com/Articles/NordicHeritageDates.html

Also, the Catholics had a bishop in Vineland in 1121

We're being lied to!

Muh 1492

>>3017396

1346 Bubonic plague reaches Iceland ahead of the epidemic in England suggesting spread of the disease along the route of the North Atlantic fur trade from America.

>>3017409

1348 Bubonic Plague in Norway

Epidemics and cold weather devastate Nordic territories. English, Portuguese, and Danish nations recover more quickly and soon claim the old Nordic colonies of the far northwest Atlantic (i.e., the New Land of America).

WTFFFFFFFFF

>>3017417

1010 Thorfin Karlsefni's company of 160 Greenlanders establish camp in Vinland and explore the continent from Christian's Bay (later Hudson Bay) to Florida. After two years, they withdraw following a skirmish with Skraelings. Nevertheless, their venture is a commercial success.

1050 A runestone in Honen , Norway, honors mariners lost at sea on a voyage from Vinland to the Arctic hunting grounds.

1053 Vinland is mentioned as part of the diocese of Bishop Jon of Ireland.

1067 Historian Adam of Bremen reports that Nordic Prince Harold of the Northmen "explored the northern ocean to the boundaries of the earth."

1073 Historian Adam of Bremen reports that the Wineland colony is noted for its wines. (Apparently, some Nordic settlers managed to get along with the natives by this time.)

c.1100 A tapestry from Skog, Sweden, features a farmstead of turkeysthe distinctive New World game bird.

1112 Pope Paschal II appoints Erik Gnupsson bishop of Greenland and adjacent regions (i.e., Vinland).

1117 Bishop Gnupsson visits "Vinilanda"according to text on the 1440 Yale Vinland Map.

SERIOUSLY I'M LOSING MY SHIT HERE

WHAT DID THEY KNOW! WHAT WERE THE CONQUISTADORS CONQUERING?!

>>3017457

1484 Portuguese Atlantic Domination

A papal bull designates Portugal as owner of all Atlantic isles by virtue of its new campaign of exploration and evangelism. Portuguese mariners sail often to old Norse territories where they report "white" natives in Stock Fish Land (i.e., Newfoundland). Gaspar Corte-Real took many white settlers from this region as slaves in 1500 and shipped them back to Portugal.

WELL WELL WELL! I MUST HAVE MISSED THIS CLASS IN HISTORY SCHOOL!

>>3017502

1346 is exactly the date I have listed as do you

The implications are mind blowing

Not only did the Pope know about the new world as early as 1120, he was taxing it well up to the 1400s and the land was so big it took 3 years to tax it all.

What the actual fuck

>>3017547

1626 Norse frontiersman Cornelius Sand negotiates the Dutch purchase of Manhattan from native Mohawks using Old Norse words that had become part of the Algonkian language.

>>3017603

Columbus and Cabot are a cover up

You know what else was happening in the 1100s? Knights Templar and Teutonic Knights. You better believe they knew of this place.

White native slaves! I'm in shock

>>3017535

Until tonight I was under the impression that Vinland was nothing more than a failed small colony. Not at all. We've been lied to