The Berserkers Discovered Newfoundland and Labrador Bye!
There is not any doubt in my mind that the Beserkers came to North America long before Columbus. Norsk Beserkers discovered the easternmost part of Canada, including Sable Island. I care not what my schoolteachers told us about 1492 and the rest of those Yokels from Spain and Portugal or Yahoos from England putting the snatch on our Cod. According to Newfie June, those Berserkers even started the original Newfoundland SCREECHES in a bottle, which is why the Irish eventually came to 'the Rock!' You have heard the ocean in a seashell, well if you put a bottle of Screech to your ear you'll hear the Newfie screeching in the bottle!

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Berserkers were the name for the roughest, toughest Sea Raiders. They were the first ashore, spreading terror amongst the people on and in the coastal sites they were pillaging. They were merciless and brought a strong, clear, vivid meaning to Rape and Pillage. Once they had terrorized the locals, the Norsemen Leaders sent in the Viking Traders and Settlers. They established many towns in the UK and Ireland. Russia was the 'Land of Rus' developed by the Norse who came up the Volga and the Berserkers thumped the locals.

My proof of the Berserker discoverers of Newfoundland and Labrador is plain and simple, Newfie June, after a jug or two of Screech, let me in on the secret of Newfoundland's past.

~Berserkers~ Word History: When we say that we are going berserk, we may not realize how extreme a state this might be. Our adjective comes from the noun berserker, or berserk, which is from the Old Norse word berserkr, "a wild warrior or champion." Such warriors wore hides of bears, which explains the probable origin of berserkr as a compound of *bera, "bear," and serkr, "shirt, coat." These berserkers became frenzied in battle, howling like animals, foaming at the mouth, and biting the edges of their iron shields. Berserker is first recorded in English in the early 19th century, long after these wild warriors ceased to exist.

Now if that is not a description of a Newf., I'd like some one to prove to me that Newfie June got it wrong!

If you want that mamby-pamby archeological proof, you can go to the Newfie Web site and read about them digging around up North on the Rock at a place called L'anse aux Meadows. They claim it to be a Viking Settlement...! I can not agree with all their digging and not one bottle, empty or full, of Screech has been found. I am sure that when those Berserkers came ashore there was a load of very loud Screeching done! The Vikings were there for certain but this mob were settlers from the Greenland colony. The Berserkers were off slaughtering the Skraelings or natives, down South. Eventually the Newfie Aboriginals ran this Viking settlement mob off and killed a few for good measure. When the Berserkers got the news they were boiling mad (pun intended) and were just chewing on the rug. Eric the Red had no time to send the lads back for revenge, but he got even! He siced the Berserkers over to Ireland and they were so brutal, once they got a gallon of Guinness or two down their gullets, that the Irish jumped in their Coracles and pulled for Newfoundland. So what Newfie June has figured out is 'a bunch of Paddies and their Colleens came screeching ashore and took to the Rock just as slick as snot on a broomstick. The Berserkers stayed in Ireland and Eric the Green took to the South and Eric the Orange took the North. They tamed the Irish Bog Trotters. With no one else to fight, the Berserkers went berserk and are still thumping each other for no other reason then to keep their hand in. If they decide to even the old score with the Newfie Skraelings or natives, some day they'll be sober enough and in shape to go for "squaring up" time.' will give you some maps of The Viking New World Landings.

viking
\Vi"king\, n. [Icel. v[=i]kingr, fr. v[=i]k a bay, inlet.] One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Note: Vikings differs in meaning from sea king, with which frequently confounded. ``The sea king was a man connected with a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the Haarfager family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having any land or kingdom . . . Vikings were merely pirates, alternately peasants #2and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their long ships or rowing galleys.'' --Laing. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

It behooves me to keep the record straight on The Beothucks ' Norse~ the Skraeling' or original inhabitants of Newfoundland. Yes they rightfully killed and ran off the Norse settlers. The European fishermen came later to fish the Grand Banks and through brutish murder and diseases killed them all off. The last one died circa 1829.

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Now you have the straight goods from Newfie June and if your child has a history project on the discovery of North America, use Newfie June's accurate history 'cause we surely have to stop this 1492 USA Columbus Day nonsense before the Norwegians go BERSERK!'



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