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The women of Wisconsin (his wise woman) began to cast copper 7,500 years ago. They used pure copper which was found on the ground around Lake Superior. Copper trade routes through America can still be traced by following many north and south highways.
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About 4,200 years ago the first ships from the Mediterranean sailed into the region. An engraving of what may be one of the first ships into the area still exists on Keewanee Peninsula. Keewanee means "Lake that turns." The peninsula is almost made into an Island by a lake that turns.
Starting 4200 years ago and continuing for 1,000 years enough copper was removed from Lake Superior to equip 300 ten thousand man armies. That amount of armor represents the approximate quantity of the armor destroyed in the Mediterranean, Asia mInor, and Europe during the Bronze Age. During the Bronze Age those areas of the world developed the warfare mentality that exists to this day.
The scant evidence available indicates that about 3,700 years ago, Norse people began to realize that they could sail into the big bay, (Hudson Bay) in large freight ships. Those ships are called "Longships." Longships pulled a small knarr and, perhaps, carried two or more knarr on deck. These knarr with crews of fifteen to sixteen mem were unloaded at the mouth of the Nelson river.
Then the knarrs would be pulled up the Nelson river to Lake Winnipeg (Stinking Bay) and then the Red River to reach Wynland of West. Rowing up the Nelson and the Red Rivers took nearly a month. The Pope at the Vatican in 1160 knew that the knarr took twelve days to return to Hudson Bay. |
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In North America trade may have been the core mentality of the people mining copper. But there is evidence that the Copper Trade developed into an armed conflict. Ships and men used all possible routes to and from Lake Superior. There is evidence that armed conflict made some of the more practical routes, like the Mississippi, dangerous.
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VIKING WATERWAY
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Just north of Fargo-Moorhead the crew on the boats could put up to 7 men with ropes on each side of the Buffalo River. They would pull the boat upstream. Ninty miles up the Buffalo River they would reach a lake now called Duck Lake at Lake Park, MN.
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From this location the knarr could row and occasionally portage all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. At Duck lake, the boat crews had not yet crossed the north-south continental divide. That would happen at Fergus Falls, MN (Worthy [to be called] "falls") where the crews would row up a fast flowing river (Ottertail) and then carry the boats across a short portage into the Mississippi basin.
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The Bronze Age ended in 1,200 BC. But the people of the sea still came to trade. The Nelson River, Red River, and Mississippi River continued to be a waterway. The Vikings came to Wynland of West after another ecological disaster in 535 AD. Highway I95 from Moorhead to Minnesota still parallels the Viking Waterway.
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About 1,000 years ago Vikings spoke OlD Norse. They had found the land north of Big Stone Lake (SD & MN) a fine land with plenty of grass, meat from buffalo, deer, and fish. They called the place Wynland of West." They used the waterway we now call the "Viking" waterway.
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Europe and Asia Minor were only a few months away, but the warfare cultures over there probably led to the development of the Seven Fires Prophecy. In the fourth fire prophecy the Viking traders were the friendly pale skinned people with the handshake The pale skinned people with weapons were people to avoid. Most Americans knew the Seven Fires prophecy. On first contact, Americans used the Seven Fires Prophecy to judge Europeans.
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Then came the Little Ice Age. The nearly 4,000 Norse on Greenland were forced to migrate to the their kin in Wynland of West.
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