The Woman Who Discovered America 500 Years Before Columbus

500 years before Columbus "discovered" America, a Viking woman had already crossed the Atlantic EIGHT times.

She gave birth to the first European child on American soil. She buried two husbands. She walked from the Arctic to Rome on pilgrimage. And history almost completely forgot her.

Her name was Gudrid. This is her story—and the story of the Viking explorers who were erased from history.

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🔥 IN THIS VIDEO:

✓ The woman who outexplored every man in the medieval world
✓ How Vikings navigated without compasses (using birds, whales, and clouds)
✓ The first European baby born in America
✓ First contact between Vikings and Native Americans
✓ The Greenland colony that mysteriously vanished
✓ Why this discovery was erased from history books
✓ The last wedding before a civilization died

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - The Explorer History Forgot
5:00 - Erik the Red's Exile
15:00 - Building Greenland
25:00 - Leif Reaches America
35:00 - Gudrid's Impossible Journey
45:00 - Vikings Meet Native Americans
55:00 - Navigation Without Maps
65:00 - The Vanishing Colony
75:00 - Why We Forgot Them

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