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For centuries the conventional wisdom was that Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition was the first time Europeans reached the Americas. Icelandic settlements in Greenland were well documented up until their abandonment in the early 1400s, but the only records of Vikings going further west than that were some family sagas of dubious accuracy that spoke of an ill-fated expedition to a place called "Vinland". Interest in pre-Columbian Norse exploration of America was renewed toward the end of the 19th century, coinciding with a wave of Scandinavian emigration to the US and Canada, but it was still considered highly speculative and lacking in evidence, and many of the "artifacts" of Viking exploration offered up in this period were of dubious authenticity (see Hoaxes below). Then in the 1960s archaeologists found genuine Viking artifacts in Newfoundland, Canada, that were dated to the first few decades of the 11th century, predating Columbus by nearly 500 years.note The exact years of the Norse presence in North America are highly debated, but a 2021 study of the wood used at the Newfoundland site dated it specifically to 1021, a decade or two later than some of the earlier dating estimates. Suggesting that The Vinland Sagas were based in some grain of truth after all. This prompted a new wave of fascination with the Old Norse seamen and speculation that they could have ventured further into North America. This speculation became fuel for a number of stories. It might be a case of Historical Fiction where characters are Vikings attempting to colonize America, it might be a modern setting where something (or someone) Vikings left behind becomes relevant to the plot, or it could even be an Alternate History where the Vinland colony persisted to the present day. Note that as of this writing, there's no evidence that Vikings made it south of the modern Canadian border, or even to the mainland. However, due to Creator Provincialism the United States of America are a popular setting for these stories. |
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The Viking (1928): Protagonist Alwin, an Anglo-Saxon noble carried off to Norway, sails with Leif Ericsson when Leif goes looking for new lands west of Greenland. The ending has Alwin staying in North America as the leader of a Viking colony implied to be situated at Newport, Rhode Island.note Before the Newfoundland sites were discovered it was popularly believed that Vinland was in New England, and specifically an old stone tower in Newport was touted as a Viking artifact. It's since been established as actually being the base of a windmill built by English colonists in the 17th century. | |
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The Golden Helmet, a 1952 story by Carl Barks, has Donald Duck, working as a museum watchman, discover an ancient map which turns out to be the private records of Olaf the Blue, a Viking explorer who reached Labrador in 901 AD and claimed the newfound continent for himself, burying a golden helmet as proof of his discovery. What's more, as Olaf's property claim is found legally valid, anyone who has the helmet can now claim to be Olaf's heir and thus, the legal owner of all of North America. Cue Donald, the nephews and the museum's curator racing to Labrador to secure the helmet before villain Azure Blue, a man who claims to be descended from Olaf the Blue, can do so. | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity: Frank finds a Viking axe buried in his backyard, somewhere in the continental United States but not specified. He winds up possessed by a Viking ghost obsessed with reaching the West Coast and claiming the continent in the name of Erik the Red. | |
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Clamavi de Profundis: "Vinland Saga" is a dramatized account of the Norse westward expansion, starting with Erik the Red's expedition towards Greenland and continuing into Leif Eriksson's exploration of the American coasts. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Valhalla: One story arc involves Eivor traveling to the fledgling Viking colony of Vinland to assassinate Gorm Kjotvesson, the colony's leader and a member of the Order of the Ancients. With his death, it's implied that the colony will soon unravel and become abandoned. Eivor ends up leaving England and living the rest of their life in North America, where they die of old age and eventually are buried. Their body is discovered and exhumed by Layla and her crew, and connected to the Animus. |
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Ghosts (US): The oldest ghost in the upstate New York mansion is Thorfinn, a Viking who got marooned there one thousand years ago and struck by lightning. In one episode the living characters find his remains and consider selling them to a museum, but opt for giving him a Viking Funeral instead. | |
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Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok: The setting materials include details on Vinland, for player characters who want to recreate Leif's voyages. | |
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In the alternate history mod Third Odyssey, the Viking colonies of Markland and Helluland have survived till the 1400s, and play a part in the Byzantine exodus and settlement to the Americas in 1444. | |
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To Shape a Dragon's Breath is set in an alternate 1840s where the colonizers of "North America" (North Markesland) are of Norse descent. The Norse also conquered much of "Europe" including the British Isles, meaning that England is not a country of its own; the term "Anglish" is used for both them and Norsemen, with Norsemen dominating. | |
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Jour J: In one book where Spain is still Moorish, Columbus' expedition lands on continental North America where they run into the descendants of the original Viking settlers, who expanded further south. | |
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GURPS Alternate Earths II: In Midgard, Vikings captured Greek Fire from the Byzantines and came to dominate the European world and a good part of America by the 15th century. By 1412, an independent Vinland is one of the four primary Norse powers alongside Danemark, Svearika and Gardarika in Europe. | |
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Pathfinder: Ulfen explorers from the Land of the Linnorm Kings are believed to have been the first explorers from Avistan — the setting's equivalent of medieval Europe — to have reached Arcadia — the equivalent of pre-Columbian America — and maintain the hardscrabble settlement of Port Valen on its shores. | |
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Age of Empires II: The "Vinlandsaga" scenario is a fictionalized recounting of the Norse expeditions to the New World. | |
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The Vampire Diaries establishes that the Original Vampires were Norsemen who traveled south to what is now Virginia. This was done to justify Mystic Falls, Virginia being the origin place of vampires, despite the Originals 1) being a bunch of white people, and 2) predating European colonization of the Americas by several centuries. | |
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Vinland Saga is a manga retelling of the Saga of Erik the Red, focused on Thorfinn's attempts to recreate Leif's voyage to Vinland. | |
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Pathfinder (2007): Ca. 1000 AD, a group of seafaring Vikings reach the shores of North America and settle there after killing the local "skraelings", but another Native American tribe wipes them out save for a boy they adopt and name "Ghost". Years later, another group of Vikings arrives and Ghost must find a way to stop them and protect his adopted people. | |
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The Vinland Sagas (The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders) are the Trope Maker, being a heavily fictionalized, if not mythologized, account of Erik the Red's settlement of Greenland, followed by his son Leif Eriksson's expeditions to what he called Vinland, or Canada. Written in the 13th or 14th century based on oral accounts of expeditions that would have been in the 10th century, which might explain how the undead and other monsters entered the tale. | |
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Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1997): The third case is set during Leif Erikson's expedition to Vinland, where the player must help recover their ship to help Leif and his crew return home. | |
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The Mask: The film version of the titular mask has ties back to the Norse god Loki. A Deleted Scene showed that Leif Erikson's journey to the Americas was to get the thing as far away from the motherland as possible. | |
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The Merchant Princes Series: The east coast of North America is ruled by Germanic kingdoms descended from a second wave of Norse settlement. | |
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Strata: One of many subtle hints that Kin doesn't come from the same "Earth" as the reader is a mention that North America is called "Valhalla," suggesting that it was named by believers in Old Norse Paganism, as Christianity doesn't exist on her homeworld. | |
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American Gods: One of the "coming to America" interludes shows a Viking expedition landing in the continental United States, only to be slaughtered to a man by Natives after capturing one of them and sacrificing him to Odin. It's implied that the sacrifice brought Mr. Wednesday to America, if not created him given that Iceland's Odin is substantially different. | |
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Thor: Vikings: In the year 1003, warlord Harald Jaekelsson and his band of ruthless vikings are cursed by a wise man for destroying a Norwegian town and murdering its inhabitants. They then set off to the New World which they have heard to lie west of Greenland. The curse not only causes their voyage to last a thousand years, it also transforms them into night-unkillable zombies who sail into New York harbor and proceed to kill everything in their path. Subsequently Thor has to assemble a team of warriors from different time periods to help him destroy the undead vikings. | |
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The Technicolor Time Machine is about a movie studio using time travel to make a realistic film about Vikings discovering America. And accidentally giving the Vikings the idea to go there in the first place. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon: In one of the books, we meet Norbert the Nutjob, leader of the Hysterical Tribe, whose claim to fame is that his father travelled to America and came back bringing a potato (or, as less-educated Vikings call it, The Vegetable That No-One Dares Name) with him, even though he was killed by a sea dragon on the journey back. The potato is important, because it's the only cure for Vorpentitis, a deadly sickness that Hiccup's friend Fishlegs has (or so they initially think). | |
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