VIKINGS and NATIVE AMERICANS

"Ancient Americans...
dealt with Vikings
on friendly terms."

[The post is in response to alerts from about a dozen fellow Norwegian, American, and EurAmerican scholars.  These scholars are aware that there should be a paradigm shift from the current American Myth toward a more accurate account of past events in America.
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The alerts all referred to the article in the November issue of the National Geographic Magazine, entitled Vikings and Native Americans, p. 80 ff.  The lead photograph is shown on the left.
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The text below was an email reply to my fellow scholars, who were asking about the best actions we should take in response to the article.  Myron.]





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Dear Fellow Scholars of Prehistoric America:
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I finally had a chance to read the Vikings and Native Americans. The publication of this article in National Geographic is a MAJOR paradigm shifter.

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I have also had time to reflect on Patricia's role.  Somehow, someway, the Viking Visitors to America.film was suppressed in 1979, thirty three years ago.  It is true that Patricia was in the film, but, for her at that time, career survival was probably paramount.

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I actually admire her perseverance to focus on the Viking evidence, when researchers all around her were bowing to the interpretations demanded by administrators, who had the Eurocentric paradigm in their heads.  

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She was able to earn her way into the store rooms of the Civilization on Man.  She worked under the "Dorset" cover to have a job to build her Archaeology reputation.  Yet she was collecting Viking evidence.

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Because of her reputation, which was built over many years, another author wrote an article that was published in a very widely distributed publication with a high reputation for accurate articles. [The influence of the magazine is shown by the many, of you, who swiftly informed me.]

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Our first reaction is to quibble over "who, what, when, where, and how," but the essence of Patricia's lifelong research is that the Vikings were in North America.  She has irrefutable evidence to support that statement.  That irrefutable evidence may be enough to puncture the overwhelming Eurocentric Paradigm in academia.

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My role, now, is to support Patricia, the National Geographic article, and to widen the "puncture" as wide as possible.

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I intend to thank National Geographic for publishing an article that few, maybe no other, mainstream magazines would dare to touch.  I intend to thank Patricia for her perseverance to recognize the details of evidence that Vikings were in North America.

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Then I intend to back off for a few months.  At that time, I hope to select a few of the more prominent details to discuss.  I will try to tackle them one by one.

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Meanwhile, I hope that "Vikings were in North America" will become a paradigm known by many, especially the educators, who teach our children.

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I will consider your comments.

You have been helpful in the past.

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But, I had already composed a Drottkvaett half stanza to honor the Paradigm Shift.  I want to use part of the Paradigm Shift Stanza now.

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Here is the first quarter stanza:

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"Old Norse one thousand years

on America here.

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[Check: the alliterations in the odd line, the same alliteration at the beginning of the even line, and the rhymes in both lines.  Old Norse is paraphrase for Vikings.  Learn the quarter stanza by memory.  Slip it into conversations.]

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I can hardly wait to tell you the second quarter stanza.  I hope the wait will not be long.  

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But, right now, Patricia's scored.  The paradigm has shifted. Let us keep focused.  We want to increase the score.

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Let us support Patricia and National Geographic.

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Myron