Marking the 9th “When Lief Eriksson first found his way to America”

[Redbeck]

When Leif Eriksson first found his way to America

Ah Leif, yes a name of many meanings, heir, descendant, beloved,
Old Norse Leifr, son of Erik so far beyond the edge of your world.
You sailed from Greenland the brave explorer son of Erik the Red
Year one thousand, your wooden long boat flies with sail unfurled.

The ninth of October through frost laden mist land shape appears,
Vinland emerges a fertile new wilderness to settle Norse families.
A millennium passes, was Lief in Newfoundland to stake frontiers
Or refurbish ships for St Lawrence Bay expanding Viking territories?

There is evidence of Norse colonies in both that has lasted forever,
So for sure it was Leifr Eriksson who first found his way to America.

A.McTiernan



Leif Eriksson Discovers America by Christian Krohg (1893)

[mystrousmen]

death is not real
life is not real
this is where you stop
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[Redbeck]

Welcome mytrousmen to the Oracle forum community and thank you for your profound observation, meaning that it is perfectly logical to sail of the edge of your known world knowing that Njord (Njoror in Old Norse) was on your side. Redbeck

In fact he trumped Christianity as the ancient God of the sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility well into the 19th Century as the prayer go to for good luck on a sea voyage frequently into the unknown. It is good to intertwine beliefs, especially the pagan beliefs with their respect for nature and the natural world should never have been surrendered, hence the sorry mess the natural world finds itself in today. Evidence that a monotheistisic approach to faith only goes so far in its beneficial impact, before it becomes omnipotently self obssessed with its right to sanction or ignore acts of bad and evil as well as good in order to preserve its immortality.



Njoror and Skadi on the way to Noatun (1882) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine