The Vikings in Canada

[Dave Beatty]

This just in - new evidence of Vikings in Canada, this time on Baffin Island some 2000 km northwest of the well researched site at L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland.  A small, broken crucible containing fragments of bronze was found at the Nanook site.  While not discussed at the website, the item is small enough to have been traded from Viking sites further east (even as far as Greenland) and no one is yet claiming that this particular site is anything other than a Dorset Paleo-Indian site, it is quite a bit further west than any other widely accepted Norse artifact (and just more ammo for the folks in Minnesota who claim that the Kensington Runestone is not a fake).
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-viking-presence-arctic-canada-02349.html

Dave Beatty

[Imperial Dave]

Nice find Dave and another little piece of the jigsaw of proof for Viking presence in the North Americas/Canada. I hope and suspect more stuff will eventually get unearthed for this fascinating element of Viking ('global') seafaring

[Patrick Waterson]

The comments after the article make amusing reading, from the Viking contribution to global warming to a certain difference of opinion over exactly which culture would have been working bronze in that particular area.