>>11618098Obviously the modern depictions are sensationalized but one cannot discount the fact that their seamanship was unrivalled at the time. Their reach spanned from Baghdad, to Britain to North America. The settled and discovered previously uninhabited islands in the North Atlantic on the same ships they sailed up the Volga, Seine and Thames. No one would dare sail west across the open ocean for another 500 years after they did it. Picrel is L’anse Aux Meadows the first European settlement in North America in Newfoundland.
