Essentially this is the Hudson Valley that is claimed here as a territory that is Norse. We expected as much and this map provides period confirmation. Quite plausibly, the Mayfair landed well north along the coast in order to avoid this settlement. After all you did have better choices in the form of this self same Hudson Valley which the Dutch set up a mere six years later.
Both powers were Protestant and the Dutch had the real navy at this point. It took Henry VIII and a century of building to make the British navy strong enough to protect colonies and also oppose the Dutch and the Spanish.
Of course all this has been written out of our history books to avoid land claims.
The missing aspect of all this is that it was painfully easy for the Norse to simply join into the colony making enterprise by merely adjusting one's name and picking up the dialect. By the by, just how the hell did those Pilgrims communicate with those 'Indians' at all? Much too easily it seems.
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Is Legendary Norumbega In North America A Lost Viking Settlement?
| March 12, 2018 | Featured Stories, Myths & Legends, News, Vikings
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The
riddle of Norumbega has never been solved. Maybe there isn’t anything
to solve because it’s possible this legendary place never existed. On
the other hand, it’s curious that Norumbega suddenly vanished from early
maps.
Some scholars have suggested Norumbega could be a lost Viking settlement.
Norumbega is today remembered a lost legendary city of gold, just like El Dorado, Paititi, Ophir and other places that exist only in the realm of mythology because many attempts they have never been found by explorers.
Mythical Norumbega On Early Maps
Legends tell that Norumbega was a city of gold. Houses had pillars of
gold and people who lived there carried quarts of pearls on their
heads.
The legend of Norumbega started in the 16th century when
sailor David Ingram claimed to have walked across the interior of the
North American continent from Mexico to Nova Scotia in 1568. Ingram
reported he had come across a very rich kingdom that was divided into
smaller kingdoms, each with its own king. People who lived there were
friendly and helpful.
Later, many considered his story to be a fabrication because
subsequent explorers had never encountered a city fitting Ingram’s
description. There were also those believed in the existence of
Norumbega. They suggested this was once a native American settlement.
Norumbega was visible on early maps and it was placed it in New
England. In 1542, Jean Fonteneau, a Portuguese navigator and explorer
reported that he had coasted south from Newfoundland and had discovered a
great river. It often appeared on subsequent European maps of North
America, lying south of Acadia in what is now New England.
Part of Abraham Ortelius' atlas from 1570, showing "Norvmbega"
among other somewhat mythical names for various areas as well as several
phantom islands. Ortelius, Abraham (1527–1598) - The Library of
Congress
The word “Norumbega” was originally spelled Oranbega in Giovanni da Verrazzano’s 1529 map of America.
It is believed it the word ordinates from one of the Algonquian
languages spoken in New England and means “quiet place between the
rapids” or “quiet stretch of water”.
In 1886 inventor Joseph Barker Stearns built a mansion named
"Norumbega Castle", which still stands on US Route 1 in Camden, Maine,
overlooking Penobscot Bay. Many have tried to find mysterious Norumbega,
but no-one has succeeded.
Horsford’s Though-Provoking Theory Suggests Nurumbega Was Built By Vikings
According to Professor Eben Norton Horsford (1818 - 1893) who is
today best remembered reformulating baking powder, Nurumbega could have
once been a Viking settlement. Later in life, Professor Horsford became
an amateur archaeologist and started to collect evidence of Vikings’
presence in North America. In time, Professor Horsford became convinced
that the great Viking explorer Leif Erikson built his house in what is
now Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Horsford also suggested that the
Vikings established the legendary city of Nurumbega. His theories were rejected by the scientific community.
As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, Leif Erikson was the son of Erik the Red, who colonized Greenland.
Leif Erikson inherited his father’s desire to explore strange new
worlds and he did explore the eastern coast of the New World 500 years
before Columbus set eyes on the Bahamas in 1492, but did he really
establish a Viking settlement called Norumbega?
Evidence Of Viking Presence In North America
Currently, there is no evidence that supports this assumption. What
is known is that in 1960, archaeologists discovered traces of Vikings at
L'Anse aux Meadows on the northernmost tip of the island of
Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Today we known this was a Norse or Viking settlement in North America.
It is possible the site may be connected with the attempted colony of
Vinland established by Leif Erikson around the same period and L'Anse
aux Meadows is widely accepted as evidence of pre-Columbian
trans-oceanic contact.
Leif Eriksson Discovers America by Christian Krohg (1893). Credit: Wikipedia
As Ancient Pages reported earlier, more recently, scientists found Point Rosee , a second Viking site in North America that could re-write ancient history.
Archaeologists believe there could be a number of ancient Viking
sites that simply have not been found yet. Perhaps one day in the future
scientists will be able to find evidence of Norumbega and then it will
be known who built the city and why it vanished from earlier maps.
For now Norumbega remains one of many legendary golden cities that exists in myths and legends.
Written by Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com
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