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on 28/09/00 07:35, Erling Johansen at erling.johansen@visa.no wrote:
> Niven mentioned some great sources of New World information, like Storm,
> Rafn.....
>
> Another great book is written by Kaare Prytz and is about voyages to
> pre-columbian America . It's in norwegian and i don't know if it's been
> translated to english.
> It's definitely worth looking at for those of you who read scandinavian
> languages. An interesting theory of his based on information from the sagas
> is that the vikings made it at least down to the caribbean, perhaps even to
> Yucatan.
>
> One of his theories is that the white people who had visited the
> Aztecs/Toltecs and gave birth to the myths which in turn helped Cortés in his
> later conquest - actually were the vikings. This must've been in the 11th
> century.
>
> In general, the book is a great read.
>
> The title is: "Vestover før Kolumbus".
>
> Erling.
>
>
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Greetings,
I wish I could remember where I read this but one God of the Incas was
Quentzacoalt - did I spell it right? - an it is supposed to mean « White
God » or to be a reference to a White God...
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