Talk:Bjarni Herjólfsson

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Was he really the first one? There are some Ogham runes found in America that seem to be of Irish origin.They date back to around 600. See http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/horse.html . --

There are various theories of contact between North Americans and Irish, Japanese, West-Central Africans, Polynesians, and various other peoples, at various different times, but none have much evidence supporting them, and certainly no individual people could be mentioned by name. The first North American peoples came over the land bridge from Kamchatka, and since then several other groups now considered native came separately across the Bering Straight. After them, the Norse are the first people for whom there is strong evidence of having reached North America. After those colonies died out, there was no known further contact until Christopher Columbus in 1492. Eebster the Great (talk) 23:59, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Bjarni was the first viking to find north america, although he didnt land there, he and his crew sailed along newfoundlands coast.

"This is the first known attempt at settlement by Europeans in the Americas." Well, no. Greenland is part of America, too, and there were already settlements there. --Palnatoke 20:52, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I suggest remove Viking settlement, since it was only a settlement, not a wiking settlement.

Dan Koehl 03:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bjarni's discovery of America is hardly an understudied fact. I think this article ought to present this in a completely different way; the only evidence of discovery is literally from a single Icelandic book which also describes riding on whales and seas of fire. Rather, Bjarni appears to be the first European with a CLAIM to have discovered North America. Eebster the Great (talk) 23:59, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fiction

Bjarni's return to the new world "of which no records were kept", his wife Ganessa, and his son Anssonno are all fictional, appearing only in the novel The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack.