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Nornagest comments on July 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nornagest 05 July 2014 06:01:14AM 2 points [-]

I don't know anything about the rest, but the Maine penny, while certainly Norse (with the caveat that there's some dispute over its context), could easily have been obtained through trade from the well-known Norse outposts at e.g. L'Anse aux Meadows. Not that baffling.