“Rediscovering Vinland, Proof”

About the Book

Two websites, vinlandsite.com and Vinlandsite-Science.org have been “visited” by many since uploading of the former, which indicates a consistent, if low-key interest in the age old tales of bygone Vikings to the New World. Visitors from many nations have not yet offered any counter to the presentations of which this author is aware. Early papers were endorsed by the then President of Iceland and were also remarked in Rolex Awards for Enterprise, published in 1955. Other papers, public and private have been received mostly with neutral responses but, on the other hand, with no contradictions or counter-arguments forwarded. The Author would be happier if his enterprise had generated more discussion and counter-argument, but for some reason that has yet yet to be fathomed, the subjects of Vikings and Vinland in halls of both American and English “Academe” is almost exclusively negative; even hostile. My periodic advances to colleges and universities have all been responded to with either disregard or silent dismissal. A major English newspaper occasionally printed thoughtful and balanced articles usually followed by nothing less than hate-mail in its letter section. I know of no program or course of study anywhere in North America’s educational systems, except, perhaps in some few primary schools. So open these pages not in expectation of tranquility, but of engagement. World famed Vinland will never be lost, but it may be subdued without reasoned interest of all students of History..

About the Author

FRED N. BROWN III: Choir boy; Toolmaker; Boatman; Marksman and Historian tackles just about anything even though his budding musical career terminated by an epidemic of spinal meningitis at age thirteen. All five of these missions came into play when he, reading in a small New England town library, chanced upon a series of books concerning the original discovery of America. Old New England legends hold Vinland adventures a millennia past and even thought to have been into New England itself. His sailor career was enhanced by his all season living aboard 38 foot motor vessel “Bonnet” for eight years, round and about Narragansett Bay, living a Viking style life binding him to this enterprise to come. A long term reading program in a small town library had earlier livened his understanding of the Sagas of Iceland, from whence the Vinland adventures had originated, stunned by detail within the numerous medieval illustrated vellums still extant in a Reykjavik museum and libraries around the world. Confounded by the extent of detail and information available within, a vivid tale of seafaring and human drama of magnificent scale of Grand Opera revealed itself. Eventually, this coalesced into such interest that the contents of this book became possible. The Author came to know ancient Vikings and locate beyond doubt their destinations in the New World. If you read this book, you will know as well.