Steinberg did not start out trying to insert himself into a debate about Viking lore, but to survey settlement patterns during Viking times. Steinberg’s find, if proved, would give credence to one saga over another.īy Steinberg’s admission, he found the imposing longhouse- on the grounds of one of northern Iceland’s most visited cultural sites, the GlaumbaerFolkMuseum-“by dumb luck.” For decades, visitors had gazed upon the field in front of the museum, unaware that evidence of one of the grandest longhouses of the Viking era lay just beneath the grass. But the only accounts of how and why Vikings journeyed to the New World, not to mention what became of them, are in Icelandic sagas, centuries-old tales that have traditionally vexed scholars struggling to separate Viking fantasy from Viking fact. In 1960, they discovered the remains of a Viking encampment in Newfoundland dating to the year 1000. For one thing, it could shed new light on the early Norse experience in North America, first substantiated by Helge Ingstad, an explorer, and his wife, Anne Stine Ingstad, an archaeologist. The location of Thorfinn’s family estate in Iceland has surprisingly broad implications. Other scholars say his claim is plausible, although even Steinberg admits, “We’ll never know for sure unless someone finds a name on the door.” In September 2002, archaeologist John Steinberg of the University of California at Los Angeles announced that he had uncovered the remains of a turf mansion in Iceland that he believes is the house where Thorfinn, Gudrid and Snorri lived out their days. Just where the family ended up in Iceland has been a mystery that historians and archaeologists have long tried to clear up. (Archaeologists have found arrowheads with the remains of buried Norse explorers.) After sailing to Greenland and then Norway, Thorfinn and his family settled in Iceland, Thorfinn’s childhood home. About three years after starting out, Thorfinn-along with his family and surviving crew-abandoned the North American settlement, perhaps in a hail of arrows. Thorfinn and his band found their promised riches-game, fish, timber and pasture-and also encountered Native Americans, whom they denigrated as skraelings, or “wretched people.” Little wonder, then, that relations with the Natives steadily deteriorated. Snorri, the son of Thorfinn and his wife, Gudrid, is thought to be the first European baby born in North America. Following the route that had been pioneered some seven years before by Leif Eriksson, Thorfinn sailed up Greenland’s coast, traversed the Davis Strait and turned south past Baffin Island to Newfoundland-and perhaps beyond.
With more and more achievements during the war, your commander will grow from a soldier to a marshal and acquire kinds of special medals which help boost the effectiveness of your troops in turn.Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of Greenland with three ships and a band of Norse to explore a newly discovered land that promised fabulous riches. Air strikes, strategic bombing, airborne forces or devastating nuclear bombs help the air force to destroy hostile defense lines. The navy may get effective marine strength through combination of destroyers, cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers. The army can use various supporting tactics including entrenchments, radars, land forts and anti-aircraft guns for more defenses. Germany’s Tiger Tank and the Soviets’ Katyusha Rocket are two of the most powerful weapons, to name but a few. As campaigns go on, different equipments of each nation would come on the stage. It’s your choice to be a part of the Axis or Allies in WWII, but only after that can Cold War scenarios be unlocked. Patton and Rommel are well-known for their panzer corps, Nimitz and Yamamoto for their aircraft carrier fleets while Goering and MacArthur for their air forces – all of them are one and only.
It’s so impressive to see their unique tactics and ace forces.
You can fight with or against those famous generals including Guderian, Rommel, Patton, Zhukov, Nimitz, MacArthur, Yamamoto, Montgomery and de Gaulle. In World Conqueror II you will be a general to accomplish a lot of important campaigns during World War II and Cold War.
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