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labster
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Evidence of people on the Azores archipelago 700 y...
If the original settlers were Norse, are the Azores the real Vinland?
rvense
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What do you mean? I don't think there's any doubt that the Norse went to North America?
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No, because the sagas document meeting the indigenous people of Vinland.
antupis
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This might be more fitting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Brendan%27s_Island
ZanyProgrammer
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Not every expedition has to match up with something historical/apocryphal. The hypothetical people who reached the Azores several hundreds of years earlier could very well just be the equivalent of historical randos.
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