WYNLAND of WEST

Among the people of the sea, Christ's message traveled faster than the ponderous religious thought transfer from isolated group to group of the people on land.  The Norse of Wynland of West were hearing about Christ before 1,125 AD.
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WHERE WAS

WYNLAND of WEST?
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Testimony and evidence present a compelling case that a possible location of Wynland of West might be as shown in the image below.   The Wynland of West symbol (the flag) was put onto a Google Image of western Minnesota after careful analysis of the possible possible locations for Wynland.  The analysis considered all the known written testimony, including maps, and evidence.  
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The earliest documentation in of a possible Wynland (1070) mentions "unseeded grain."   There is a north and south Wild Rice River east of the Red River and north of Fargo ND-Moorhead MN, which are shown in the lower left corner.

WYNLAND of WEST on modern Google Earth image.

Modern field investigations result in Norse artifacts found above the Herman Beach elevation, but very few artifacts below that elevation.  [Notice the change in color from the terrain below the Herman Beach line on the west to terrain above the line to the right.]  The Norse may have chosen permanent settlements above the Herman beach Elevation to avoid the spring floods that Fargo-Moorhead experience many springs.  [Fargo-Moorhead are below the  Herman Beach Elevation.] Wynland of West, which is shown on the image, would have been above the Herman Beach elevation.
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About 1,125 AD the children Wynland were learning Genesis by memory.  They were using pictographs to key the memory of self-verifying stanzas. We have those stanzas today.  They are the first two chapters of the Maalan Aarum (a.k.a. Walam Olum).  Those stanzas were created 500 years before the King James Bible.  The King James Bible records similar stories in the first eight chapters of Genesis.

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The adults in Wynland called themselves "Len," which means "pure."  Norwegians pronounce "pure" as "Ren." "L-R" pronunciations depend on speech habits learned in youth. "Len" syllables still exist as part of names for small towns in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa.  The names are Ulen MN, Veblen, SD and Olen Iowa.   
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Ulen is just east of a spot where old settlers said thee might have been a Viking ship.  A Viking sword was found in the area.

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The first Norse may have come to Wynland of West because they had previous knowledge of the transcontinental waterway across America.  An early 20th century map with the transcontinental waterway overlaid on Wynland of West looks like this,

WYNLAND of WEST on a early 20th Century Map, showing the Transcontinental Waterway
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The early 20th century map was chosen to show the transcontinental waterway because the surveyors colored the Minnesota grassland as light brown and the land with trees is colored with very light green.  Thus, it is easy to visualize the terrain to transcontinental waterway passed through.
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The transcontinental waterway of the copper trading era began just north of Fargo-Moorhead.  Interstate 94 between Moorhead and Sauk Center MN parallels the transcontinental waterway.

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The 1,000 foot elevation line, shown on the map, is a crude approximation of the the highest water level during the copper trading era, from 2,200 to 1,200 BC.  The sailors coming for pure copper appeared to have modified natural streams to make a waterway that would enable them to transfer heavy boats from the Red to the Mississippi Rivers.  The boats may have loaded with pure copper at Minneapolis and floated down the Mississippi to return to Europe on the Gulf Stream.
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On the Buffalo River and again south of Fergus Falls to about Alexandria MN, the grass land enabled the crews to walk, while pulling the lightened boats along on the small waterways. Thus, going up stream was mostly a walk on a path through grass.  Going down steam was mostly a float through the woods.
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