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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by boomboomsubban on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:34PM (#28938255)
> I can only think of one settlement the Vikings set up in Gaul

Are you calling Normandy one settlement? As they certainly spent most of the Viking age colonizing from Iceland to Sicily.

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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by gremloni on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:43PM (#28938814)
Most of the “colonizing” happened in prehistory. It was also based out of Ukraine, don’t know if you can attribute that to the Vikings.
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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by acjohnson55 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:56PM (#28938923)
I think you may be misinformed.

Viking was a lifestyle or temporary occupation, not a people. The people were the Norse, and they did a massive amount of settling in the Viking Age.

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Re:Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 by boomboomsubban on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:21AM (#28940224)
This is akin to saying "most of the pillaging in history happened by people besides vikings, so you can't really attribute that to them." Yes, others colonized the areas. The Vikings also did during the Viking age.
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