tuality of Norsemen colonizing the Americas. Like the historical documents, sagas are not always trustworthy sources for events that happened in the past. When people write historical documents and sagas, they usually tend to write about their point of view and specifically for their purposes. Nevertheless to say, critics have found such records are not always objective and may not even be truthful at all. In the case of Sigvatson, there are historic records supporting the saga accounts, but some question their validity. Other people have been split on whether the stones are real or not. Some scientists say that the stones could not possible be real and it is just part of an elaborate hoax. It has been observed in the past that people will unquestionable go great lengths to try and fake data. People have welded animal and human bones together in attempts to prove evolution, so it is not much farther off to prove previous ownership of land. Much other reasonable skepticism has been added from many other scientists, and with good cause. Unfortunately, like many other new radical claims in history, many of these questions raised about Bjarne can never be completely answered. Unquestionable, there have been valuable points on both sides that need to be considered when talking about the Vikings and the myths of the rune stones origin. In my opinion, I think there is still enough evidence to prove that the Vikings landed and colonized the land before any other European nation. The Norsemen were more than capable of making such voyages and discoveries, their nautical abilities far exceeded the Spanish or English abilities of the time. In addition, it would have been impossible for even the best-educated historian to create such stones in the many different places with the same time period origination. Also, there would be no clear reason, monetary or politically, to make this hoax. However, with any new discovery it takes an incre...
