The English founded St. John's Newfoundland on June 24, 1497 (35 years before Cartier). The Vikings were here 500 years before that. It doesn't matter who was here first, it matters who's here now. Newfoundlanders/Skraelingers were the first people in the world to turn back the Scandinavian tide. If you really want to rile up Europe, kick them off the Grand Banks. Then Denmark would lose Greenland AND the Faroe Islands.
The English founded St. John's Newfoundland on June 24, 1497 (35 years before Cartier). The Vikings were here 500 years before that. It doesn't matter who was here first, it matters who's here now. Newfoundlanders/Skraelingers were the first people in the world to turn back the Scandinavian tide. If you really want to rile up Europe, kick them off the Grand Banks. Then Denmark would lose Greenland AND the Faroe Islands.