It takes imagination and a lot of time behind the words!

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[b]This 1570 map sparked my imagination![/b] [i] (It doesn't take much to do that) [/i]

As I looked over the map I noticed something, there it was! The Duhare, an Indian tribe I had read about and heard about as I grew up in South Carolina. Many scholars thought the tribe to be a myth but as more and more people research them, more and more facts are surfacing that they were real!

I for one believe they were real, and after seeing this map, my mind went to work on my next story. I began digging into the research and have spent many hours on it. It seems the vikings gave some Irish people a ride to what is now South Carolina to establish a new land, a new Ireland. At this moment, none of this is in my new story yet, but who knows, maybe it will find its way in. I'm not finished writing it you know.

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NativePortlander1970 ·

Except that no Viking records exist where they sailed further south than Newfoundland, hence the name of the Canadian Province. That map could just be another historical hoax, have it date tested at a lab.

Coletracer · M

@NativePortlander1970 This is just one article I can refer you to. The map, I got off the internet, the facts or fiction I got off the internet, but I go by what I think is true through the many hours of researching it. ://www.legendsofamerica.com/duhare-irish-indians/
quote, The Vikings, who are now known to have explored North America long before Christopher Columbus, described the Irish as able seamen who traveled extensively and great distances, as far as Iceland in the 10th century. The Vikings also claimed that the Irish occupied an area south of the Chesapeake Bay called Hvitramamaland, meaning “Land of the White Men."
There are other references which I can dig up but can you give me references to your statement. I'm open for discussion.

NativePortlander1970 ·

@Coletracer The Kessington Stone found in Minnesota.

Coletracer · M

@NativePortlander1970 As in my statement about the Irish hitching a ride with the Vikings, the stone isn't proven true either. Since neither one of us were around back then, we have to go by what we read from all the so-called scholars. Now to speculate, the stone, if true, only states they were exploring westward . Who's to say they didn't explore southward as well.

NativePortlander1970 ·

@Coletracer Because the Vikings recorded their travels on stones, not paper. The Kessington stone was authenticated as real, despite by many trying to convince everyone else it's a hoax.

Coletracer · M

@NativePortlander1970 That statement still doesn't disprove a group of Vikings didn't travel along the eastern coast as far as South Carolina or even Florida. It only proves (if true) a group of Vikings abandoned their sea fearing ways to travel inland. The stone says a crew was left behind to guard the boats. It had to be a different group of ten from the ten killed at the camp as I read it. Did they explore further south?

Coletracer · M

@NativePortlander1970
The stone claims 30 members sailed westward. 10 were killed, 10 left at the ships, so that leaves 10 at the stone site.