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PeterH

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Irish America?

Nov 11, 2005, 12:06

From Eirik's Saga, two skraeling boys tell Thorfin Karlsefni's men that " There was a country across fron their own land where the people went about in white clothing and uttered loud cries and carried poles with patches of cloth attached. This is thought to have been Hvitramannaland."

Now that could be just medieval chroniclers' invention, but perhaps not. It does sound an awful lot like how natives might perceive chanting monks carrying religious banners.

Hvitramannaland means literally "White Men's Land" and in Landnamabok there is a reference to Hvitramannaland which was said "to lie six days' sail west of Ireland". Magnus Magnusson writes that "there may well be a connexion between this reference and the Tir na bhFear bhFionn (Land of the White Men) of Irish legend. Another Norse saga - Haukbok- names this western land as "Greater Ireland""

Something of substance there surely?

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