600-year-old American Indian historical account has Old Norse words by Larry Stroud from Guard-Two experts on ancient America may have solved not only the mysterious disappearance of Norse from the Western Settlement of Greenland in the 1300s, but also are deciphering Delaware (Lenape) Indian history, which they’re finding is written in the Old Norse language. The history tells how some of the Delaware’s ancestors migrated west to America across a frozen sea and intermarried with the Delaware and other Algonquin Indians. Using Sherwin as a reference, they found that much of the Algonquin language consists of Old Norse, including Old Norse root words often strung together to make new words that were adopted by Algonquin speakers. That the Algonquin Indian languages have many words identical to Old Norse is not a new discovery.” The memory verses of the Walam Olum were created by people speaking Old Norse,” Paine said. “The Walam Olum is a 600-year-old American history composed of pictographs and memory verses. The history tells of fighting the mound builders, Iroquois, and of the arrival of white men.” Our efforts to decipher the Walam Olum have found a striking correlation of the Walam Olum words to Old Norse phrases,” Paine said. In Old Norse, “midh” means “middle,” or “lying in the middle”: and “sjoe-kum” or “sjoe-kumme” means “sea basin” or “sea reservoir.” The verses describe a mass of people walking to the west to a better land, across the “slippery water, the stone hard water.” The migration corresponds with the “Little Ice Age.”

Language is an amazing tool. Not only does it allow us to communicate, but it also gives us clues about our history, ancestry and infers something about the culture of the people who speak or spoke it. I have a passion for looking at the inter-connectiveness of various languages, language maps and word roots. One way to help you learn both vocabulary and grammar is try to understand if there is an analogous principle or root word in your native language, which corresponds to your target language.

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