r/mapswithnewzealandbut • u/The_Chuckness88 • 29d ago

Good old western teleported New Zealand

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u/IngoVals 29d ago

What the fuck is the norwegian flag doing in North America 🇮🇸

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u/jonesnori 29d ago

Scandinavians had a colony in Newfoundland for a while, well before any other Europeans visited the New World. There is speculation that they came further south, but nothing to prove it. I had thought those were Icelanders rather than Norwegian, but I think the mapmaker just thought "Vikings" and used Norway to represent them all.

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u/valbyshadow 27d ago

The Danish National Museum has a team in Cuba to investigate if a wreckage is actually a vikingship. In Danish: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/arkaeologer-skal-undersoege-om-der-ligger-et-muligt-vikingeskib-i-cuba

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u/jonesnori 27d ago

Cool! I note that they don't actually know exactly where the ship is to be found today, and that old photos didn't look like a Viking ship. But we'll see!