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‘They were people who took chances’: The Vikings who reached the Americas 500 years before Columbus

The Norse made it to Canada around the year 1000, and used it as a base to explore. The BBC has delved into the “lost history” of the first Europeans to cross the Atlantic. Christopher Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492 – arriving in the Bahamas on 12 October 1492, to be precise – but …

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