Happy Leif Ericson Day!

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Its so nice to have a day to celebrate the first guy who "discovered" North America!

Wikipedia said:
In 1964, the United States Congress authorized and requested the president to proclaim October 9 of each year as "Leif Erikson Day". That date was chosen for its connection to the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States (the ship Restauration, coming from Stavanger, Norway, arrived in New York Harbor on October 9, 1825), not for any event in the life of the explorer. The day is also an official observance of several U.S. states.
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I had my first bottle of mead last week. I'll pretend it was in his honor. :D
 
I imagine the Mayan and Aztec people might be amused about the discovery of America?
 
Bob Noel said:
I imagine the Mayan and Aztec people might be amused about the discovery of America?
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Amused as in infected with disease from Columbus amused? :D

I was reading that they had found some evidence of Norsman colonies as far south as what is now know as Nova Scotia.
 
Dagnabbit, and here I am without any mead. One of the loft-inmates here (who dabbles pretty successfully in homebrewing) is planning to make a batch, as it turns out... but he hasn't started yet.

But I do have a (non-Norse) beer... so, Skål !!
 
While there may have been "natives" who also probably immigrated from elsewhere, like Asia, the previous inhabatants or "discoverers" did nothing to expand the new world in a meaningfful way. And before anyone goes off on exploitation and such, its the fittest that survive in this world. Its not "fair" but that's the way it is.
 
snowbird said:
Is that like "Talk Like a Pirate Day"?
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No, because this was a holiday made up by Congress, as opposed to by some middle-aged men with a combined IQ lower than the horsepower on Dan's new airplane. Oh wait... ;)
 
dont be disrespecting talk like a pirate day...
 
The first European to discover America was St. Brendan. (The Irish take credit for everything)
 
steingar said:
The Vikings were amazing. Erikson crossed the North Atlantic rowing an open boat.
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I'm pretty sure he had a sail too. Even if it was just a square sail on a shallow draft vessel, one can point upwind (somewhat). This doesn't detract from the accomplishment though.
 
Hoisting a horn of mead in honor of Leif! Skal!

Hávamál (Sayings of the High One)

11. Byrþi betri / berrat maþr brautu at,
an sé manvit mikit;
auþi betra / þykkir þat í ókunnun staþ,
slíkt es válaþs vera.

[A better burden / no man can bear
on the way than his mother wit:
and no worse provision / can he carry with him
than too deep a draught of ale.]

12. Esa svá gott, / sem gott kveþa,
öl alda sunum,
þvít fæ'ra veit, / es fleira drekkr,
síns til geþs gumi.

[Less good than they say / for the sons of men
is the drinking oft of ale:
for the more they drink, / the less they can think
and keep a watch over their wits.]

13. Óminnis hegri heitr / sás of ölþrum þrumir,
hann stelr geþi guma;
þess fugls fjöþrum / ek fjötraþr vask
í garþi Gunnlaþar.

[A bird of Unmindfullness / flutters over ale-feasts,
wiling away men’s wits;
with the feathers of that fowl / I was fettered once
in the garths of Gunnlodr below.]

14. Ölr ek varþ, / varþ ofrölvi
at ens fróþa Fjalars;
þvi's ölþr bazt, / at aptr of heimtir
hverr sitt geþ gumi.

[Drunk was I then, / I was over-drunk,
in the fold of wise Fjalar;
But best is an ale feast / when a man is able
to call back his wits at once.]
 
Ted DuPuis said:
No, because this was a holiday made up by Congress, as opposed to by some middle-aged men with a combined IQ lower than the horsepower on Dan's new airplane. Oh wait... ;)
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Hey! My IQ is more than 65...it's that attention thing but anyway -- oh yeah the horsepower is more like 60, given that the air intake passes the oil cooler effectively warming the air, but causing Lycs to have less Carb heat problems than Contis....hey! Look at the shiny thing! :eek:

To the OP -- The Norwegians didn't do much more than set up drying racks and plant a few grapes.

At least the French actually explored the place, made nice with the locals, and settled down!

The Spaniards were pretty good explorers, too -- in a "Where did I PUT that thing!?!?" sort of way.
 
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