CARTE DU CANADA

Carte Du Canada

AD 1708

Researcher Dr. Myron Paine cites the 'Carte Du Canada,' a French map compiled in 1708, which shows place names associated with the Lenape epic, Maalan Aarum.'
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The existence of this map indicates that the early French explorers, upon arriving in North America, had found Christians ('Les Kristinoux') already living there.
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Dr. Paine continues: 'The Carte confirms that the largest area of “Les Kristinaux” was in the northern forests of North America surrounding James Bay and the land south of Hudson Bay.
This area was the termination of the migration across ice recorded in Maalan Aarum (MA) Chap. 3.
On the Carte the large white area from Fort Nelson, in the west, to the Eastmain River, on the east side of James Bay, is labelled “Les Kristinaux.”
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The term ‘Les Kristinaux’ used on the map is the French spelling for the Old Norse word 'Kristin' and a Gaelic word ‘slough,’ which means multitudes, sounds which the early Jesuit missionaries and French explorers would have heard from the Leni Lenape.
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Other cartographic evidence of the descendants of the Greenland Norse living in North America is the existence of early French maps with the name 'Norumvegue,' (a native Micmac or Portugese corruption of "Norveca,") meaning ‘Norway’ (The road North), in Old Norse, written across a large region to the southeast of Nova Scotia, (corresponding with the region now known as " New England.")

 (frozentrail.org)

This is another name the French would have heard the Leni Lenape using to describe that region. (What the Lenape were really telling the French was: "We are Norse.")
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When the Norse first arrived in America, the Americans included large numbers of Irish and Scottish people, who called themselves ‘Albans,’ after the Latin ‘Albani’ meaning people with white skin and hair, hence the Gaelic derivation of the second half of the word "Kristinaux." (Kristin, meaning "Christians" and "ough" most likely derived from the Gaelic root: "Slough," (meaning: "multitudes.") 

(frozentrail.org Dr. MyronPaine)

Farley Mowat first proposed the voyages of the Albans. 

(Mowat, 1998/2000)

Evidence to support Mowat's hypotheses includes the Ojibwa and Cree traditions, which tell of coming to this land a millennium ago from a land across a salt sea in the east.

                     (Dr. Myron Paine

quoting : (Bial, 2000)

The Albans were presumably the descendants of Picts, Irish and Britons, whom had escaped after persecution of the old Irish Church of St. Columba in Britain by the Catholic Church, followed by the ensuing Viking invasions, then by the Norman invasion of William the Conquorer (named by the Pope as the true King of Britain, because the church in Britain resisted the hegemony of the Catholic Church)

thence to Greenland and America.

(Norsh4History)

(Thus, just as in the later crusades against the Cathars in Southern France, the pagans in the Baltic States and Muslims in the "Holy Land," this Norman invasion was a Vatican sanctioned crusade to restore the British Isles predominantly to the Catholic faith).
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Albans were also Christian people, who abided with the pure.

(Dr. Myron Paine)

Many New England rivers, as well as having Norse and Native American names, are now also known to have Gaelic names, such as 'Merrimac,' which means 'deep fishing' in Algonquin, which is too close to the Gaelic 'Mor-rionmach', meaning 'great depth,' for it to be a coincidence.

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The presence of many of these Gaelic words in the Native American languages of the east coast, gives credence to claims that there were indeed tribes of people of Scottish and Irish descent, calling themselves Albans.
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Many of the Lenape tribes have legends of their ancestors coming across the sea from the east.
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For instance, the Abnakis are one of twelve Northeast America tribes that have traditions of their ancestors coming from the east over a salty sea.
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As the Abnakis traditions mention their ancestors crossing a 'salty sea' from the 'east, they may be referring to Albans from Scotland as being their ancestors. This is suggested by the fact that the name of the coastal tribe the Micmac in Scottish Gaelic, means 'beloved sons'.
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(Anishinaabe oral history of the Algonquins denotes the Anishinaabe peoples as being descendants of the Abenaki people and refers to them as the "Fathers").

Swedish researcher Eleonora Jonsson
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 (Norah4History, Eleonora Jonsson,)

 has translated long forgotten documents from their original archaic scripts, which state that a rescue mission in 1435 took many of the remaining Norse in Greenland to America. 

(Norah4History)

She also writes that in 1431 King Eric of Norway wrote to the regent of the young King Henry 6th of England complaining of English pirate raids on Greenland and other Atlantic islands and that records show that there were Norse still living in Greenland up until the 1520's).

 (Norah4History)

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