Atun-Shei Films | Did Vikings Explore New England? @AtunSheiFilms | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Happy Leif Erikson Day! In 1957, an amateur archaeologist found a medieval Norse penny on a beach in Maine. Does this mean Viking explorers made it to the continental United States? No. Well, maybe. Yes! Actually, nobody knows.

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~REFERENCES~

[1] Svein H. Gullbekk. “The Norse Penny Reconsidered: The Goddard Coin—Hoax or Genuine?” Journal of the North Atlantic, no. 33 (2017): Page 1–8 jstor.org/stable/26671890

[2] Robert McGhee. “Contact between Native North Americans and the Medieval Norse: A Review of the Evidence.” American Antiquity 49, no. 1 (1984): Page 4–26 doi.org/10.2307/280509

[3] Marshall McKusick & Erik Wahlgren. “The Norse Penny Mystery.” Archaeology of Eastern North America 8 (1980): Page 1–10 jstor.org/stable/40914181

[4] Kayla Fish. Maine's mysterious Viking penny part 1: real or hoax? (2018). YouTube youtu.be/ie-XdjXpIjk?si=CXZkqJP5g97qut7C