Precolombian Norse in Alaska and Vancover

From: Tedd Jacobs (Jacobs_at_mail.boisestate.edu)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:27:27 -0600

"Eric Stevens" wrote...
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 03:35:12 GMT, Philip Deitiker
> <Donevenask@worlnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>Day Brown <daybrown@hypertech.net> says in
>>news:4177204f$1_1@127.0.0.1:
>>
>>> Philip Deitiker wrote:
>>>> No doubt if you prove the point Inger will claim that
>>>> the
>>>> vikings traded with the chinese and sold coconuts to the
>>>> natives who engraved silver and traded them back to the
>>>> Vikings.
>>> Well, as a matter of fact, the Vikings made it all the way
>>> down to the Caspian Sea, where one branch of the Silk Road
>>> was already in operation. The Vikings could have traded
>>> with the Chinese.
>>
>>No but Inger will claim they traded via Vancover and Alaska.
>
> Hmm, I don't know about trading but I know some people who think there
> may be evidence pointing to the norse having been in that part of the
> world. I know you will deny the possibility.
>
> I've seen some of the evidence over the years and I have to say that
> while it is tenuous it is not just the product of a fevered
> imagination.

citation or refference.

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