The History Guy
The History Guy
Lance and Josh Geiger
Counterfactuals: Viking North America
1 hour 12 minutes Posted Feb 11, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
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On today’s episode we tackle the counterfactuals of some of the most popular peoples in history: The Vikings. In the tenth century norse colonists began settling in Greenland, where they found surprising success in some far-northern reaches, before making landfall in North America. The settlements had all faded away by the 1400s, but what might have happened if it had all gone differently?