The Gogtad Ship

The idea that vikings and norwegians had discovered america, this was all part of a kind of interest, like a identity movement. This is what happens with the columbus myth, right? It's propagated by the same thing, italian american pride. And so at first it doesn't begin as a pissing contest. But having covered the the gogtad ship, which they then excavate and put on display, and there's all this interest in its construction,. "It has those classic, you know, it's got a dragon on the front and a curly cue, and its like, not well known to people in imagining viking time