The New Stürmer

Year 2002

Jesus said, the Jews are liars, hypocrites, and deceivers. They twist the truth to their benefit and give us lies.

Dear kindred and fellow Aryans:

In this article I intend to give you information regarding the discovery of America few of you ever heard. Before we start on that journey I would like to clear up a big misunderstanding regarding the name the Norse had for America - Vinland.

Most of you might have heard of a man called Leiv Eriksson in connection with the discovery of America. His real name was - in Norse - Leiv, and that is the name I intend to use in this article.

Kristian Krog's painting Leiv Eriksson discovers America.   (Something is wrong in this painting.  What?  If you see it, contact me randulf.johan.hansen@c2i.net )

The name Vinland and its meaning

Vinland has through the years been interpreted as Land of Wine, or Wineland. Even by some scholars of Scandinavian background this interpretation has been used. I have since my early childhood had problems with that interpretation, because I knew grapes did not grow so close to the Polar Circle as the place where the Norse landed in America.

Let us look at the real meaning -- by the year 1000 -- of the word ‘vin’ in Norse. That is ‘vin’ with a long i. Vinland means Land of Meadow or Grassland.

None of the Norse sources writes about Vinland and grapes. Neither Are Frode nor Nikolaus of Thera -- both men from the first part of the 11th century, and neither does Snorre. One should also note that the oldest history of Norway, Historia Norvegie, from around 1190, does not talk about grapes on Vinland. But then again, all Norsemen knew the meaning of the word Vinland.

Wine was unknown to the people of Greenland as Leiv discovered Vinland - thus he could not have named the land after a drink he did not know.

It is true that some 150 years after Leiv sailed westwards wine was introduced to the Scandinavians and this drink was given the name "vin", but then spoken with a short i.

The people in Greenland -- where Leiv Eriksson came from -- were not used to huge meadows or very fruitful grasslands. As they saw a land which was fruitful and a good place for farming they named that place Vinland. On his journey from Greenland Leiv Eriksson even saw a land he named Markland - meaning Land of Forest.

All the names of lands Leiv saw were described in a way for others to understand, and must have been, since the name in conjunction with sailing directions should be used by those who wanted to sail the same route.

Who was the first to mistranslate Vinland to Wineland?

As far as I know the first man who wrote about the discovery of Vinland was the German Adam of Bremen who wrote a history book for the Archbishop of Bremen, Germany, around 1070. Adam was working for the Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen. The Latin title of Adam was canonicus -- in English, canon.

In his history book -- The history of Hamburg, The Archbishopry of Bremen and the Northern Islands -- Adam claims all he wrote about Greenland and Iceland was told to him by King Svein Erstridsson of Denmark. To refer to kings of various countries was common among historians of the Middle Ages; such reference gave the story more credibility, they thought.

Let us see what Adam of Bremen wrote about Vinland:

The King of Denmark told me of the discovery of an island. It had been called Vinland because vines had been found there. Wines were wild. Beyond this island, the King said, one cannot find anything because ice and fog covers the ocean. One day's travel away from Thule the ocean is rough.

Being a German, Adam should have known that grapes can NOT grow in an area where ice and snow are commonplace. But let us forgive Adam for his misunderstanding of the Norse language. Especially since we now have learned the true meaning of the Norse word Vinland: Land of Meadow/Grassland.

Who saw America first?

The Norse traveller Bjarne Herjulfson, on a voyage from Iceland to Greenland on which he, due to fog and very bad weather, got lost. Bjarne never set foot on the new land but sailed northward and saw a land with glaciers before he sailed southwards and finally came to Greenland. He saw a land named Helluland -- meaning Flat Land.

Bjarne told about the new land he had seen - and this led to Leiv Eriksson¹s voyage to the Land of Meadows.

Who was Leiv Eriksson? What did he do?

He was the son of Eirik Raude, the man who discovered Greenland and settled there. After him, a lot of people from Iceland arrived.

Eirik Raude settled in a place on the southwest coast of Greenland. He called his settlement Brattahlid.

Around the year 1000, Leiv Eriksson with about 100 men set out to discover the land Bjarne had seen. He travelled in the opposite direction of that of Bjarne. Leiv must have sailed along the western coast of Greenland and crossed the David¹s Strait probably close to Disko Island. At Disko Island he must have seen the glaciers and the flat landscape Bjarne had described. From there Leiv sailed southwards and found Markland and eventually the land he called Vinland. He stayed in Vinland for at least one year. Why? Because due to the wind and currents he could not return the same year he arrived. Leiv and his men built at least one house to live in, and a boat house for the longship they sailed in.

It was during that year they explored the new land they had discovered. It was during that year the German Tyrker found some berries he thought they could make a drink from.

After the return to Brattalid, Leiv told of the new land, he told about the beautiful meadows, Vinland, and the enormous forests they had seen, Markland.

To the people of Greenland the forests were of great importance. There were neither forest nor trees on Greenland, and the people needed trees to build ships and houses.

After Leiv¹s travel many people sailed to see if they wanted to settle in the new land. The next expedition was led by Torvald, but he did not stay long.

After Torvald, Torfinn Karlsevne and his wife Gudrid sailed to Vinland. They stayed there for some years. Gudrid even bore a son, Snorri Torfinnsson. Torfinn and his followers stayed some time in Vinland. They even got acquainted with the natives, whom they called Skraelingar. (The Norse used the same name for the natives of Greenland - the Eskimos.)

As Torfinn and his followers meant to settle in Vinland they must have brought with them cattle, like cows and sheep. We must also assume they started to look for marsh since that was important for them as they needed iron to make tools and weapons. (The first weapons made from iron by the Vikings were made from iron they found in marsh.)

During the stay in Vinland Torfinn and his followers got into fights with the Skraelingar. Why? We don¹t know. But we can guess. The Norse were tradesmen and would have traded whatever they had with the Skraelingar. I am also convinced that the natives of America, Skraelingar, were interested in trading with the Norse. Since the natives were nomads they could not have met the Norse too often. But on one of the meetings the Norse might have offered the Skraelingar something to drink or eat. The Norse drank milk for all the meals, mjoed and beer was only for special occasions. One of the favorite drinks was a drink made from milk. The milk was set aside for some days until it got thick, then the thick stuff was skimmed off and used for cheese. The liquid was used as a drink and as food. If they gave milk or anything made from milk the Skraelingar must have gotten sick after a few hours, because the natives were not used to drinking milk and lacked the bacteria to digest whatever the Norse gave them. The natives must then have thought the Norse were trying to kill them and started a war on them.

The saga tells about a war with the Skraelingar but does not mention why.

The war was costly to the Norse, and they decided to leave.

This was the end of the Norse settlement in America

The Pope learned of Vinland.

After Gudrid returned to Greenland, she went on a pilgrimage to Rome. There she spoke with the Pope and told him about the new land she and her friends had lived in. This must have been around 1010 - 1015.

Did the people of Greenland and Iceland return to Vinland?

The sagas don¹t tell us of any more voyages to the new land. But I am convinced they at least visited Markland on many occasions.

Why I am convinced? Because on there are no forests on Greenland. The Norse needed trees to build their houses. In the beginning, the first who settled in Iceland, cut down some of the trees there; afterwards they had to get trees all the way from Norway. Such travel was very expensive and took a long time, besides, even though their boats were big, they were needed for more important goods than trees.

With huge forests fairly close by, I am convinced they sailed to Markland for all trees needed for building and repairing houses, building and repairing ships, etc.

During the 1960s a Norwegian explorer, Helge Ingstad, and his wife, Anne Stine Ingstad, an archaeologist, spent years looking for Vinland. On the north coast of Newfoundland, at L¹Anse aux Meadows, they found sites of Viking houses. They even found some tools, such as spinning wheels, very like those used by the Vikings. The most spectacular find was a needle for a brooch, below, used by the Norse.

At the site the Ingstad family discovered seven houses, three boat houses and a forge, picture to the left. They even found slag from the iron the Norse made and the anvil used for hammering the iron.

Picture of the needle                     

I hope you will read the sagas, Groenlandingersage and Flateyarbok, which tell about the brave Norsemen and -women who discovered and settled in America some 1000 years ago.

Leiv's route

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