"Thorfinn Karlsefni"

Thorfinn Karlsefni was first European to settle on North America proper, just in case you were looking for someone specific to blame for the last six hundred years.

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Errata #3

in which we own up to even more mistakes

Errata for Wonder Marvelously; A Warning to Future Man; Air Crash Museum; Worse Than Frankenstein; Seven Minutes in Heaven; 520%; and more.

Categories: Bonus Episodes, Errata

Tags: Colonel Robert Ammon Dighton Rock Faithism Flatwoods Monster Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke Herbert Lee Washington Iceland Ira Colver Sparks McDonald's Pittsburgh, PA Presented by #13 Project Habakkuk Raymond Arthur Palmer rigid airship Shalam Colony Silver Legion of America Simon Girty Thorfinn Karlsefni United States Navy William Dudley Pelley

Published: January 9, 2023

Errata #2

in which we own up to some more mistakes

Errata for The Hot House; French Leave; The Icelander; "I'm the Naughty Boy"; What-Is-It?; Moron or Madman?; Suffer Little Children; and more.

Categories: Bonus Episodes, Errata

Tags: baseball Bayard Pfundtner Peakes civil law Colonel John Ignatius Rogers Colonel Joseph H. Wood communism dime museum Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed "Koresh" Dr. Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian Dr. Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali Dr. John Ballou Newbrough Ed Delahanty Elizabeth Rowell Thompson Fairmount Park Henry M. Bennett Ira Colver Sparks Jersey Devil Laura Biggar Oahspe Olaf Strandwold Philadelphia Phillies Philadelphia, PA Pontifacts Presented by #13 Silver Lake Tales from Aztlantis The Constant Thorfinn Karlsefni Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Walter Wanger

Published: November 1, 2021

Westward Huss

in which America asks the question: whither Vinland?

For years, archaeologists have searched in vain for the location of Leif Eriksson's Vinland. They should have just asked the good people of New England.

Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 8, The Quest for the Past

Tags: Barry Fell Boston, MA Canada Dighton Rock Eben Norton Horsford Jöns Jacob Berzelius Leif Eiriksson Maine Massachusetts Native Americans New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) Norumbega Nova Scotia Presented by #13 pseudo-science Rhode Island runes skepticism Thorfinn Karlsefni Thorvald Eiriksson Vikings Vinland

Published: October 4, 2021

Thorfinn Karlsefni (1915-1918) by Einar Jónsson

The Icelander

a tale of public art, politics, and racism

Why, exactly, was there a statue of a Viking explorer in Philadelphia? And why isn't it there now?

Categories: Arts & Culture, Daring & Epic Journeys, Series 5

Tags: art art history Fairmount Park Iceland Leif Eiriksson Pennsylvania Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia, PA Presented by #13 Thorfinn Karlsefni Thorvald Eiriksson Vikings Vinland

Published: September 28, 2020

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