Thank you. The Suffolk County Historian on Long Island, NY once published an account thought to be perhaps from the saga, to relate to Vinland. In the account two Irish slaves were sent out from the drowned meadow (Port Jefferson, NY) to the top of the moraine where they recounted seeing a large bay a barrier beach and the ocean beyond. We worked in Fort Golgotha then a Queens Ranger headquarters in a cemetery on-top of a hill in Huntington, NY where Nathan Hale was thought brought to before hung in New York City having but "one life to lose for his country".
Around the same time the Hargrave Vineyards opened up (1979) who had searched all over New York State for a vineyard location and decided the Town of Southold, which receives more days of sunlight than any other location to be the ideal location. Local legend also had the 17th century would be European vineyard grower (Mr. Moses) unsuccessful in planting the European root stock, unresistant to the local soil biota, until grafted onto the local grape rootstock shown how by the Rocky Point Indians (a confusing toponym for a couple of places on Long Island). Vineyards there were blown off by hurricanes in the 17th century and in the 1840s. Since 1979 there have been over 25 vineyards started and producing wine on Long Island.
Interesting also lately the so-called "Vinland map" has been under scrutiny partly at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, now run by a consortium, led by Stony Brook University, once under the direction of the US Dept. of Energy. The argument I read has been that because the ink contains titanium it must be more modern than its provenance suggests. During WWII, in the foothills of Mt. Marcy, titanium ores were mined from the vicinity of the origin of the Hudson River the "Tear in the Clouds" and the old McIntyre Iron Mines and foundry of the 19th century shown first by a "St Joseph" Indian as a dam in the mountains of solid iron, a "titaniferous magnetite." It said, the titanium oxide mined from there painted all the Allied tanks of WWII white for winter combat, a railhead established at Tahawas (another name for Mt. Marcy, the tallest mountain in NY State) which ran through North Creek, NY where Teddy Roosevelt had been driven to on a relay of buckboards through the night, after the death of President McKinley to assume his role as President inaugurated in Buffalo, NY after reading the telegram and taking the special train from North Creek.
I'd recently did some research and mapped what were probably the remains of an early 20th century slaughterhouse which serviced the various Adirondack hotels and retreats. North Creek is where modern skiing in New York may have begun, moved to nearby Gore Mountain. A proposed ski-trail interlink may spur development. Anyone an expert on those early industrial facilities that were the fore-runner of the modern chemical industry (everything but the squeal) please contact Greenhouse Consultants, Inc. in NYC.
The Official Site: Sea Stallion from Glendalough 2007
The return of the Viking longship - 1000 nautical miles from Denmark to Dublin "The Vikings Are Coming, Again" The Irish coverage of it.
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