Connection between Native Americans and Old Norse
600-year-old American Indian historical account has Old Norse words by Larry Stroud from Guard-Two experts on ancient America may have solved not only the mysterious disappearance of Norse from the Western Settlement of Greenland in the 1300s, but also are deciphering Delaware (Lenape) Indian history, which they’re finding is written in the Old Norse language. The history tells how some of the Delaware’s ancestors migrated west to America across a frozen sea and intermarried with the Delaware and other Algonquin Indians. Using Sherwin as a reference, they found that much of the Algonquin language consists of Old Norse, including Old Norse root words often strung together to make new words that were adopted by Algonquin speakers. That the Algonquin Indian languages have many words identical to Old Norse is not a new discovery.” The memory verses of the Walam Olum were created by people speaking Old Norse,” Paine said. “The Walam Olum is a 600-year-old American history composed of pictographs and memory verses. The history tells of fighting the mound builders, Iroquois, and of the arrival of white men.” Our efforts to decipher the Walam Olum have found a striking correlation of the Walam Olum words to Old Norse phrases,” Paine said. In Old Norse, “midh” means “middle,” or “lying in the middle”: and “sjoe-kum” or “sjoe-kumme” means “sea basin” or “sea reservoir.” The verses describe a mass of people walking to the west to a better land, across the “slippery water, the stone hard water.” The migration corresponds with the “Little Ice Age.”
Language is an amazing tool. Not only does it allow us to communicate, but it also gives us clues about our history, ancestry and infers something about the culture of the people who speak or spoke it. I have a passion for looking at the inter-connectiveness of various languages, language maps and word roots. One way to help you learn both vocabulary and grammar is try to understand if there is an analogous principle or root word in your native language, which corresponds to your target language.
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2 responses to Can a Native American language tell what happened to the Greenland Vikings?
Absolutely. If we can find what First Nation tribes assimilated with the migrating Norse over what was probably a long period of time involving many different Norse groups across Canada and south into present day America culminating with the little ice age and can find linguistic proof of this as seen above with other Algonquin tribes dialect overlapping with Norse words then we should listen very carefully to the stories and histories of these unique people. Maybe we can find out what happened to the Greenlanders. Unfortunately, these linguistic links were ignored and ridiculed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the Archaeology Academia. Much knowledge has been lost. Even more damaging is the reality that almost all tribes were killed and butchered by Europeans that these unique tribes of Native First People and Norse were most likely killed as they were most likely some of the first tribes encountered by these dumbasses.
Peter, thank you for the comment. I have always been very curious about this connection between the Greenland Vikings and Native Americans.
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