If I learned something about history (especially in the history of Science), its that its not about doing something first. Its about being first to make people care about what you did.
@Gev G Yeah thats right. Im thinking more in the direction of of scientists, who end up as footmark in historie, even though they were first. They discovered things first, but since they didnt know the right people, or they didnt know how to use/interpret the same discovery, they got forgotten. Later someone else has the same idear, but the abilities to get the fame too.
Somebody's gonna carefully write a momentous sentence for the occasion, like Armstrong's "one small step for man." And that somebody will be a suit on the ground, not the astronaut giving the speech... but their guidance about what to say will, like Armstrong, stop at that point, because the next thing you want to hear is a mission status report to do science with. Everything else will be unscripted. Which is why we will all tune in to the livestream of our choice to watch somebody say one sentence of great import, quietly mutter "first," and then start doing science. In that order.
I just wanted to tell you how great your series Rare Earth is. I've watched about 5 episodes a day the past week and half always been left reflecting on myself, the world, and how we can make it a better place at the end of each. Keep up the good work!
I've been watching from home in St. John's since the beginning of the series so when I saw these two most recent videos of my little rock in the ocean I got very excited. I grew up in western Newfoundland and have visited L'anse aux Meadows several times. I love your style of narration and your ability to tell a nuanced and personal story instead of just taking cool drone shots and saying "we were here". Thank you, Evan and crew. We appreciate your work.
I truly hope this channel doesn't become some bought out corporate media outlet. Such an awesome channel and if you stick to these stories and shedding an unbias look at the world around us, this channel will blow beyond your wildest dreams. You are a great journalist.
From what I remember (I had a professor who was a serious JRRT fan), Tolkein was heavily influenced by Norse and Celtic mythology. Even the names of some of his characters are similar to those found in Beowulf.
@@MLeoDaalder Thanks! It's been years since I had that professor. Last I heard, he was still hosting annual holiday readings of Tolkien's works at his home. They are a huge event. Dozens of guests all take turns reading a chapter aloud. He was one of those rare "know-it-alls" who is actually interesting to listen to.
@@CynBH Radagast was named after a Slavic god, so he had at least some extent of influence from Slavic mythologies too, though I don't think to the same extent as Norse and Celtic. I don't know if it's even at all other than the one name, but I'm not familiar enough about the Slavic beliefs in the first place.
I absolutly adore this series, thank you so much for making it, every video really enriches my day, Evan you are really someone I love listen to and Francesco, your camerawork is as excellent as always (especially in the last video about the heart of canada) I don't know how many are involved in making this series, but I'm pretty sure they give their best and are excellent at their part. Since it's 9 o'clock here in austria, I wish you all a nice evening
"I would like you to think of the crew of Apollo 12" So Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Richard Gordon (Commander, LM Pilot, CM Pilot respectively). To be fair, I did have to look up Richard Gordan's first name, but I remember Alan Bean from the fact that he was an artist after leaving NASA and used some moon dust in all his paintings. He also was a part of the Skylab 3 Mission. Pete Conrad I remember from the listing for Gemini 5, though he was commander on Gemini 11 alongside Richard Gordon who was pilot. I also remember him from the Skylab 2 mission which is memorable for it's rescue of what was at the time a doomed station. Apollo 12 was the first mission to do a precision landing. It landed near Surveyor 3, a probe that had landed in what is now known as the "known sea" because of the many lander missions in the area. They also were the first mission to land on the moon with a colour camera, though it was pointed into the sun by Alan Bean, destroying it. This actually lead to very little coverage of the mission. The crew had taken an timer for the camera's shutter, so that they could take a picture of both of them on the moon with the surveyor probe, which would mess with the post mission photo analysis, but it was lost on the EVA and plan was never carried out. There is always someone who does not conform to the analogy. In this case it is me.
I think It's kinda easy to remember "Richard" Gordon's name cause he's also called D*** But seriously, I got a bit confused cause I thought you meant that Alan Bean was on "Skylab 3" (the 3rd Skylab mission, Skylab 4), which was the one with the Space Mutiny , when you meant Skylab 3 or "Skylab 2", and I thought "I don't remember Al Bean being on the Space Mutiny?" As exceptions to analogies go, I guess you, me and Evan's dad have something in common.
@@henrysimpson9469 to a viking greenland is green. The inland is full of ice and snow, but so are Iceland and Norway. You can't sail there so who gives a shit
Interesting that St. Anthony is the name of that town. St. Anthony is Portugal's most famous saint. Born in Lisbon. The Portuguese were responsible for many names in the Maritmes. Portugal Cove, Bay of Fundy (Baía Funda), Fogo Island (Fogo means fire), Newfoundland and Labrador (Terra Nova e Lavrador), etc. The Portuguese in Canada have a joke... an early Portuguese explorer landed in Newfoundland, looked around and put up a sign that read CÁ NADA, which means Here Nothing, then buggered off. Canada also means a trail or dirt road in Portuguese. Vikings did their part, just think the Portuguese deserve some recognition too.
It was Portuguese explorers that mapped a lot of Newfoundland after it was re-discovered(technically of course). For example Labrador was named after João Fernandes Lavrador, one of the first explorers to check out the peninsula. Cape Spear is also a corruption of the Portuguese Cabo da Esperança.
You he mentioned that in his last video. Portuguese fishermen found the enormous cod schools up near newfoundland, mapped the area, and eventually built seasonal fishing towns in the area.
Anne and Helge stopped in to visit my parents in Northwest River when they were first trying to locate a possible Viking settlement. My father was a minister covering many settlements along the coast of Labrador at the time and they wanted to know if he was familiar with a type of terrain they were looking for. He told them he didn't know of any place along the Labrador coast that sounded like what they were looking for, but it sounded like maybe L'Anse aux Meadows was what they were looking for. My father was the son of a fisherman, born in a now all but abandoned outport called Little Brehat north of St Anthony. Before becoming a minister, he had fished with his father and uncle out of L"Anse aux Meadows. The small point of land near where the viking settlement was found is called Colbourne Point.
In BC we were taught a lot more in school about George Vancouver and the Russians in Alaska than about Vinland or Columbus. We are as far away from those first two points of contact as Japan is from us and the first contact of western north America in my view is a story all its own somewhat separate from the east.
Norwegians have always been explorers. It's always great to read and see other Norwegians doing their part to rediscover our legacy. The Danes could never bury our history, but they certainly tried hard to claim ownership of it
Can you tell me more? I know that at some point there was a combined Denmark-Norway kingdom and that is why Denmark still claims ownership of Greenland. I always thought the vikings and explorers came from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark since they had a similar heritage at the time.
@@danaphanous The different countries went to different places. Norway was the country that mostly went north and west, away from France and England. In 1536 the Danish king removed the sovereignty of Norway, and made Copenhagen the only authority in the kingdom, going away from a union, to a single kingdom
thanks for showing true history , still more to come to light that will show the world that the world was more interconnected than the history book tell us .People have always traveled the globe but are buried in the sand of time and forgotten
Hey, I live in St. Anthony! It startled me when you said the name. I should specify before there's any confusion: St. Anthony, Minnesota. Still cold, not that cold.
I find very engaging the way you narrate, your scripting style. I really like some of your videos! Will you ever make a video about how you structure and write your video blogs? Pleaseeee 🙏🙏🙏🙏
If only US history teachers would tell history unbiased as you do. Thank you for all you do! My 7 y.o. loves listening to your videos with me. He's becoming more and more interested in the TRUE past of this world!
I too enjoy your videos, very eye opening. You find tidbits of the past and turn them into a journey that we all can learn about. Question though about the First Man, wouldn't that be the natives who were in the Americas before anyone else? Where did they come from?
I used to work for an Italian (not real Italian, but Italian-American,) community center, and they had a plaque there commemorating Columbus as the first European to discover the New World. They had a little addendum on this Plaque that said while Vikings had come to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before Columbus, the fact that these Norsemen hadn't told anybody back home about this new territory utterly negated their claim to being the first Europeans to discover the Americas because somehow bragging is necessary for a discovery to be valid. I always shook my head at that little plaque and often wondered what kind of Wine they'd make out of those Sour Grapes concerning the Vikings.
Also, the Portuguese were already fishing in the banks when Columbus landed. They may or may not have stopped over on Aqidneck to prep their catch at that time. They certainly were soon after the discovery.
Only mistake I see is that L'Anse Aux Meadows isn't a part of St.Anthony itself. L'Anse Aux Meadows is part of the actual town of L'Anse Aux Meadows. I'm from the former. Other than that, I can some of the points of view. If you save some guys off a coast, aren't they technically first? I hope when you were filming it wasn't too cold. Once October is over, snow pretty much starts falling every other day and once December settles in, we don't see green grass until June.
First except for the Indigenous peoples that lived in this part of the world since the glaciers melted. Plus there's a lot more info out there about the Norse in terms of archaeology. Greenland wasn't as bad as we think. Norse were there for 500 years, developing the colonies into the premier exporter of ivory for medieval Europe and Inuit and Dorset groups lived in that part of the Arctic for centuries longer. It's only a difficult place to envision living if you have southern eyes. Part of the challenge for understanding how past peoples lived is to shift our perspective as best we can. Or talk to the folks that still live there and have infinitely more knowledge than what can be found in a book.
Yeah, I always find it funny that the first European somehow gets so much more legitimacy. The North East Asians journey is much crazier when you considered that they went through ****ing Sashka (Yakutsk province, the coldest city on Earth) and Chukotka, along with Alaska and Canada, all the way down through the deserts and into the jungles and rainforests of South America where they built huge civilizations. The Vikings just simply explored the region.
You know its Rare Earth when in the middle of a story about vikings recorded in a Canadian backwater town you get a picture of a boat(6:10) whose name is written in Basque.
You keep putting primary stress on the last syllable of "Newfoundland" and secondary on the first. Is that correct, in usual Canadian or especially usually Newfoundlander accents? I say it the other way around - accent on the first syllable, secondary stress or maybe not even that on the third. But I'm from the US South (and I'd be delighted to suggest the places around here that are very much Rare Earth), so I definitely wouldn't know.
As a Newfoundlander I can confirm he is saying it correctly, he clearly learnt it from a townie though lol ( townies are people from the st.johns area)
If you are curious about other people who reached America before Columbus, read about Basques, who also reached Newfoundland, when our ancestors where looking for whales. Some historians have claimed that Basques where in fact, the first. 6:07 shows the boat "Itsas begia", or "Eye of the Sea" in Basque (this is clearly a later era boat, I know).
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Hi, isn't the Polynesians first discovered America?
While in Newfoundland are you going to do a video on operation yellow ribbon?
@@professorhasinabanu2199, Seriously ??? Some of my ancestors walked to the Americas, back when Europeans lived in caves...
Who are u?
you could have foregone the patreon for the chance to comment "first" on this video
just saying
If I learned something about history (especially in the history of Science), its that its not about doing something first. Its about being first to make people care about what you did.
@Gev G Yeah thats right. Im thinking more in the direction of of scientists, who end up as footmark in historie, even though they were first. They discovered things first, but since they didnt know the right people, or they didnt know how to use/interpret the same discovery, they got forgotten. Later someone else has the same idear, but the abilities to get the fame too.
its not about making history, but writing it down
If the internet means anything to the astronauts that go to mars then the first word on mars is definitely going to be “first”.
Considering that Elon is doing well in that front... It's not out of the realm of possibilities.
Somebody's gonna carefully write a momentous sentence for the occasion, like Armstrong's "one small step for man." And that somebody will be a suit on the ground, not the astronaut giving the speech... but their guidance about what to say will, like Armstrong, stop at that point, because the next thing you want to hear is a mission status report to do science with. Everything else will be unscripted.
Which is why we will all tune in to the livestream of our choice to watch somebody say one sentence of great import, quietly mutter "first," and then start doing science. In that order.
I thought it would be "sponsored by _________"
@@larkrogers3690 The first word would be the brand name. "_______ brings you..."
@@teucer915 I'd mutter 'first' first then get to the rest of the jazz
I just wanted to tell you how great your series Rare Earth is. I've watched about 5 episodes a day the past week and half always been left reflecting on myself, the world, and how we can make it a better place at the end of each. Keep up the good work!
As a Dane hearing him pronounce Leif as "leaf" really confused me for a moment 😄
I've been watching from home in St. John's since the beginning of the series so when I saw these two most recent videos of my little rock in the ocean I got very excited. I grew up in western Newfoundland and have visited L'anse aux Meadows several times. I love your style of narration and your ability to tell a nuanced and personal story instead of just taking cool drone shots and saying "we were here".
Thank you, Evan and crew. We appreciate your work.
I truly hope this channel doesn't become some bought out corporate media outlet.
Such an awesome channel and if you stick to these stories and shedding an unbias look at the world around us, this channel will blow beyond your wildest dreams. You are a great journalist.
By any chance did early Irish traditions affected the works of Tolkien?
_Heaven was seen as a land across the western sea_
From what I remember (I had a professor who was a serious JRRT fan), Tolkein was heavily influenced by Norse and Celtic mythology. Even the names of some of his characters are similar to those found in Beowulf.
@@CynBH The names of the Dwarves and Gandalf himself are directly from lists of Dwarven names of the Poetic Edda (one of the Norse Saga's).
@@MLeoDaalder Thanks! It's been years since I had that professor. Last I heard, he was still hosting annual holiday readings of Tolkien's works at his home. They are a huge event. Dozens of guests all take turns reading a chapter aloud. He was one of those rare "know-it-alls" who is actually interesting to listen to.
@@CynBH Radagast was named after a Slavic god, so he had at least some extent of influence from Slavic mythologies too, though I don't think to the same extent as Norse and Celtic. I don't know if it's even at all other than the one name, but I'm not familiar enough about the Slavic beliefs in the first place.
Not that I mind the extra info, but why is everyone responding to me when it wasn't me who asked the original question?? It was Kaustubh Verma 🤔
I absolutly adore this series, thank you so much for making it, every video really enriches my day, Evan you are really someone I love listen to and Francesco, your camerawork is as excellent as always (especially in the last video about the heart of canada)
I don't know how many are involved in making this series, but I'm pretty sure they give their best and are excellent at their part.
Since it's 9 o'clock here in austria, I wish you all a nice evening
"I would like you to think of the crew of Apollo 12" So Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Richard Gordon (Commander, LM Pilot, CM Pilot respectively). To be fair, I did have to look up Richard Gordan's first name, but I remember Alan Bean from the fact that he was an artist after leaving NASA and used some moon dust in all his paintings. He also was a part of the Skylab 3 Mission. Pete Conrad I remember from the listing for Gemini 5, though he was commander on Gemini 11 alongside Richard Gordon who was pilot. I also remember him from the Skylab 2 mission which is memorable for it's rescue of what was at the time a doomed station.
Apollo 12 was the first mission to do a precision landing. It landed near Surveyor 3, a probe that had landed in what is now known as the "known sea" because of the many lander missions in the area. They also were the first mission to land on the moon with a colour camera, though it was pointed into the sun by Alan Bean, destroying it. This actually lead to very little coverage of the mission. The crew had taken an timer for the camera's shutter, so that they could take a picture of both of them on the moon with the surveyor probe, which would mess with the post mission photo analysis, but it was lost on the EVA and plan was never carried out.
There is always someone who does not conform to the analogy. In this case it is me.
showoff
lol but seriously I'm impressed
I think It's kinda easy to remember "Richard" Gordon's name cause he's also called D***
But seriously, I got a bit confused cause I thought you meant that Alan Bean was on "Skylab 3" (the 3rd Skylab mission, Skylab 4), which was the one with the Space Mutiny , when you meant Skylab 3 or "Skylab 2", and I thought "I don't remember Al Bean being on the Space Mutiny?"
As exceptions to analogies go, I guess you, me and Evan's dad have something in common.
guess they should rename Skylab-1 to Skylab-0 and so-on
I'm currently studying in Trondheim, Norway. The exact same statue of Leif Ericson can be found in the harbour there.
I am going to wager that its simply a similar looking one, and not the exact same one ;)
@@GreenLarsen They do make multiple copies of the same statue from time to time.
Unfortunately (or not) Greenland is getting relatively warm these days.
as it did when the Vikings landed,.. nothing unfortunate about that.
@@scottywills124 Actually it was only green the outer parameters and was named Greenland to trick people to sign up to emigrate there.
@@henrysimpson9469 Yes,. the coastline was the only patch of green. What did you think I meant??
@@henrysimpson9469 to a viking greenland is green. The inland is full of ice and snow, but so are Iceland and Norway. You can't sail there so who gives a shit
@@erikarneberg11 Inland. To the snow.
Please tell me you went up to Labrador, I've been dying to see someone cover Nunatsiavut for years, there's not a single good video online about it.
I hope he does but if he finds Newfoundland cold you know he'll freeze if he goes up north of goose bay lol
"Thanks coastline, you have rocks" 😂 😂
Interesting that St. Anthony is the name of that town. St. Anthony is Portugal's most famous saint. Born in Lisbon. The Portuguese were responsible for many names in the Maritmes. Portugal Cove, Bay of Fundy (Baía Funda), Fogo Island (Fogo means fire), Newfoundland and Labrador (Terra Nova e Lavrador), etc. The Portuguese in Canada have a joke... an early Portuguese explorer landed in Newfoundland, looked around and put up a sign that read CÁ NADA, which means Here Nothing, then buggered off. Canada also means a trail or dirt road in Portuguese. Vikings did their part, just think the Portuguese deserve some recognition too.
It was Portuguese explorers that mapped a lot of Newfoundland after it was re-discovered(technically of course). For example Labrador was named after João Fernandes Lavrador, one of the first explorers to check out the peninsula. Cape Spear is also a corruption of the Portuguese Cabo da Esperança.
You he mentioned that in his last video. Portuguese fishermen found the enormous cod schools up near newfoundland, mapped the area, and eventually built seasonal fishing towns in the area.
@@danaphanous basque fishermen**
Anne and Helge stopped in to visit my parents in Northwest River when they were first trying to locate a possible Viking settlement. My father was a minister covering many settlements along the coast of Labrador at the time and they wanted to know if he was familiar with a type of terrain they were looking for. He told them he didn't know of any place along the Labrador coast that sounded like what they were looking for, but it sounded like maybe L'Anse aux Meadows was what they were looking for. My father was the son of a fisherman, born in a now all but abandoned outport called Little Brehat north of St Anthony. Before becoming a minister, he had fished with his father and uncle out of L"Anse aux Meadows. The small point of land near where the viking settlement was found is called Colbourne Point.
Love the series.
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Scraelings..... Those sagas are a good read. Brilliant video
I was just researching about this place since your last video, and now you've covered it in detail. Thanks!
There are two really great storytellers on UA-cam. You and Tom Scott (because of him I found you). Thank you!
In BC we were taught a lot more in school about George Vancouver and the Russians in Alaska than about Vinland or Columbus. We are as far away from those first two points of contact as Japan is from us and the first contact of western north America in my view is a story all its own somewhat separate from the east.
I said i before, I'm saying it again. your channel is so underrated..
Been binging this channel for the past few days, it's awesome.
RareEarth you should visit australia sometime, do a story on the first peoples
Norwegians have always been explorers. It's always great to read and see other Norwegians doing their part to rediscover our legacy. The Danes could never bury our history, but they certainly tried hard to claim ownership of it
Can you tell me more? I know that at some point there was a combined Denmark-Norway kingdom and that is why Denmark still claims ownership of Greenland. I always thought the vikings and explorers came from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark since they had a similar heritage at the time.
Leifur Eiríksson was most likely born in Iceland! :)
@@binnihh Icelandic people were Norwegians at the time, and are descendants of Norwegians today
@@danaphanous The different countries went to different places. Norway was the country that mostly went north and west, away from France and England. In 1536 the Danish king removed the sovereignty of Norway, and made Copenhagen the only authority in the kingdom, going away from a union, to a single kingdom
HolycrapLOL. You don't have to tell me that, I live there, always have.
I love the historical storytelling. Wonder if there's any channels like this
Loved the blurb at the end! Nice surprise!
thanks for showing true history , still more to come to light that will show the world that the world was more interconnected
than the history book tell us .People have always traveled the globe but are buried in the sand of time and forgotten
The 'first' was like, 20,000 years before any Viking ever lived.
Actually about 12-15,000 years!
Correct dates matter!
Hey, I live in St. Anthony! It startled me when you said the name.
I should specify before there's any confusion: St. Anthony, Minnesota. Still cold, not that cold.
I find very engaging the way you narrate, your scripting style. I really like some of your videos!
Will you ever make a video about how you structure and write your video blogs? Pleaseeee 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, and whatshisname who stayed in orbit. Those CM pilots are the least memorable ones of the lot.
Don Sample Least remembered for sure, but I wouldn't say they were the least memorable. Remarkable pilots and explorers all of them.
If only US history teachers would tell history unbiased as you do. Thank you for all you do! My 7 y.o. loves listening to your videos with me. He's becoming more and more interested in the TRUE past of this world!
>Thanks coastline, you have rocks
Man I died laughing at that. Needed to write this comment in order to move on.
I too enjoy your videos, very eye opening. You find tidbits of the past and turn them into a journey that we all can learn about. Question though about the First Man, wouldn't that be the natives who were in the Americas before anyone else? Where did they come from?
They came across a strip of land between Siberia and Alaska that existed due to lower sea-levels following the last ice-age.
I used to work for an Italian (not real Italian, but Italian-American,) community center, and they had a plaque there commemorating Columbus as the first European to discover the New World.
They had a little addendum on this Plaque that said while Vikings had come to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia before Columbus, the fact that these Norsemen hadn't told anybody back home about this new territory utterly negated their claim to being the first Europeans to discover the Americas because somehow bragging is necessary for a discovery to be valid.
I always shook my head at that little plaque and often wondered what kind of Wine they'd make out of those Sour Grapes concerning the Vikings.
Also, the Portuguese were already fishing in the banks when Columbus landed. They may or may not have stopped over on Aqidneck to prep their catch at that time. They certainly were soon after the discovery.
this channel needs more views
The bones of Irish monks where found in Iceland by Vikings. The Vikings had said they the last monk die of some 70 years before they got to Iceland.
Only mistake I see is that L'Anse Aux Meadows isn't a part of St.Anthony itself. L'Anse Aux Meadows is part of the actual town of L'Anse Aux Meadows. I'm from the former.
Other than that, I can some of the points of view. If you save some guys off a coast, aren't they technically first?
I hope when you were filming it wasn't too cold. Once October is over, snow pretty much starts falling every other day and once December settles in, we don't see green grass until June.
First except for the Indigenous peoples that lived in this part of the world since the glaciers melted. Plus there's a lot more info out there about the Norse in terms of archaeology. Greenland wasn't as bad as we think. Norse were there for 500 years, developing the colonies into the premier exporter of ivory for medieval Europe and Inuit and Dorset groups lived in that part of the Arctic for centuries longer. It's only a difficult place to envision living if you have southern eyes. Part of the challenge for understanding how past peoples lived is to shift our perspective as best we can. Or talk to the folks that still live there and have infinitely more knowledge than what can be found in a book.
THANKS COASTLINE, YOU HAVE ROCKS
Well I would say the native Americans where there first in north America... kinda obvious or?
Yeah, I always find it funny that the first European somehow gets so much more legitimacy. The North East Asians journey is much crazier when you considered that they went through ****ing Sashka (Yakutsk province, the coldest city on Earth) and Chukotka, along with Alaska and Canada, all the way down through the deserts and into the jungles and rainforests of South America where they built huge civilizations. The Vikings just simply explored the region.
For thousands and thousands of years...;)
Seekarr took thousands of years
Well some think that using a shorcut through the bering strait doesn't count :P (It does)
It is a different kind of first.
Doesn't the extension of the appalachian trail go all the way up there and end at the northern tip of the island?
You know its Rare Earth when in the middle of a story about vikings recorded in a Canadian backwater town you get a picture of a boat(6:10) whose name is written in Basque.
"thanks coastline. you have rocks"
Great video
you didnt even watch it
_Sea you are the first man
Ya missed a fantastic opportunity here mate
First
Well presented, thanks from Orlando
Another great video from my favourite channel
When dropping first, always remember to leave a corpse
Do a video on Oak Island, Nova Scotia...Please...do it for us, your faithful followers
You keep putting primary stress on the last syllable of "Newfoundland" and secondary on the first. Is that correct, in usual Canadian or especially usually Newfoundlander accents? I say it the other way around - accent on the first syllable, secondary stress or maybe not even that on the third. But I'm from the US South (and I'd be delighted to suggest the places around here that are very much Rare Earth), so I definitely wouldn't know.
As a Newfoundlander I can confirm he is saying it correctly, he clearly learnt it from a townie though lol ( townies are people from the st.johns area)
its pronounced more like newfn-land
So when you going to Greenland then?
If you are curious about other people who reached America before Columbus, read about Basques, who also reached Newfoundland, when our ancestors where looking for whales. Some historians have claimed that Basques where in fact, the first. 6:07 shows the boat "Itsas begia", or "Eye of the Sea" in Basque (this is clearly a later era boat, I know).