The Uncanny County Museum

Episode 40: Grapes and Beards: Vikings in North America


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On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe in the museum's interactive exhibit on Vinland from the old Norse sagas. In presenting the story of “Vikings'' in North America, Joe will be covering a brief overview of this profoundly interesting topic in History. He recounts the tales of adventurers Erik the Red, Leif Eriksson, and Thorfinn Karlsefni in their roles in finding the North American continent as they're told in the Icelandic and greenlandic sagas. Nevertheless, investigating why they would have traveled so far west at this time and why they never told anyone...

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The Uncanny County MuseumBy Xan Peters and Joe Cimino