New evidence suggests Vikings – and their mice – beat Portugal to the Azores

NC Wyeth’s painting Viking Longship on the Water depicts Norse sailors on their way to America in 1,000 AD. Experts now believe they settled in the Azores between 700 and 850 AD. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty

NC Wyeth’s painting Viking Longship on the Water depicts Norse sailors on their way to America in 1,000 AD. Experts now believe they settled in the Azores between 700 and 850 AD. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty

source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/31/did-vikings-and-their-stowaway-mice-beat-portugal-to-the-azores