Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "History Buffs: 1492 Conquest of Paradise" video.

@hanyu_dada : They sailed back because there was nothing there worth their time. The northern parts of North America where they landed is pretty much identical in climate, plantlife and fauna to Scandinavia. Norsemen were on the lookout for places with arrable farmlands, not endless pine and spruce forests where you can't grow crops, which they already had plenty of at home.
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@tolispoulos5398 North america where they landed didn't. At least not within easy reach of any norse settlers at the time. In case you historically illiterate self didn't notice, north scandinavian colonies tended to be located within spitting distance of the coast. Inland settlements where mostly something you'd find in Scandinavia itself but rarely for "foreign" colonies. And the only thing you'd find close to the coasts of most of north america is the identical kind of climate and natural features that you already find in Scandinavia (spruce and pine forests). What would be the point of dumping all the resources and manpower required to set up a colony that will be faced with exactly the same difficulties in farming endavours that you already have at home? The British Isles on the other hand is different, because there's far more stretchrs of nutrient rich soil and leaf forests, which is why so many norse scandinavians prefered it to invade and settle. North america however had NOTHING that norse scandinavians wouldn't find at home.
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@tolispoulos5398 There is no historical evidence that they met "strong resistance from native inhabitants". No skeletal remains showing injuries of weapons, no mass death locations, no mention of any indians in Norse sagas or runestones and no oral traditions among native americans of any encounters with norsemen. NOTHING. Greenland at the time did not have a harsher climate than northern america. It was named GREEN-land for a reason. Climate has changed since then. Climate wasn't the issue though. Sediment was. The british isles have winters too, especially at that period of time in history. Doesn't change the fact that most of the sediment on the British isles have mlre nutrient rich soil than the nutrient deprived soil in northern scandinavia and north america.
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@tolispoulos5398 Where is your proof of viking and native american interaction of any kind? Where are the native american oral traditions and iconography supporting your claims? Where are the norse sagas or menhirs inscribed with runes? Where is your forensic evidence? Oh, that's right! YOU HAVE NONE! You're just talking out of your ass, sperging shit that you THINK happened, which you have no historical evidence to support.
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@patrickturner6878 Source?
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@tolispoulos5398 None of which the norse were looking for you moron. The were looking for VERDANT FARMLAND. What part of that is so hard to get through your thick skull?
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