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If the original settlers were Norse, are the Azores the real Vinland?


What do you mean? I don't think there's any doubt that the Norse went to North America?


No, because the sagas document meeting the indigenous people of Vinland.



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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