Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> In 3 of the Icelandic Sagas there is mention of an
> Irish speaking colony somewhere on the coast of
> North America.
>
> The gist of the story is that a Norse ship was
> blown off course in a storm and finally made
> landfall at some unknown location. The crew were
> taken prisoner until a former Icelander arrived
> and allowed them to make repairs and set to sea
> again. Seems that the Icelander was from one of
> the founding families of Iceland and his name was
> Ari Marsson with numerous spellings.
>
This sounds like a good story, but I don't know how reliably it proves Irish in America. In one Viking story about America it talks about giants with one eye and one leg only.
And if it's an "unknown location", how do we know it's America, and not, say, the Hebrides?
