Scientists after studying the genetic origins of an Icelandic family believing that Americans came to Europe from the 10th century about 500 years before Columbus made the journey to discover the continent in the year. 1492.
Based on Saga (the folklore of Northern Europeans about a character, a family .) and the latest scientific data, Spanish researchers believe that the Vikings examined breaking into America before Columbus for centuries and it was they who brought the Americans to northern Europe when returning from there.
Maybe the Vikings found America before Combus.
The results of genetic genetic research indicate that a North American woman probably came to Iceland around 1,000 AD and married the indigenous people. To this day, there are still about 80 of her descendants in Iceland carrying part of her genes.
The genetic source of the study was also taken from ancestors, who lived in the early 18th century, of the particular Icelandic family living on an isolated island in the south of Iceland, near the Vatnaj Kull glacier.
" This island was actually isolated from the 10th century so the most probable hypothesis is that this gene belongs to a Native American woman who married a Viking man in about 1,000 years "- said the head of the research program, Carles Lalueza-Fox of Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.
According to the researchers, the woman may have come from the Terranova region of eastern Canada.
The research results have been published in the American journal " American Journal of Physical Anthropology ".