The Vikings left behind substantial evidence of their relationship with native North Americans. Many of the Vikings' artifacts can currently be seen at an exhibit that opened in April at the National Museum of Natural History, part of the Smithsonian Institution. This evidence also suggests that Vikings regularly traded goods with Native American ancestors 1,000 years ago. There has never been any other time like this when peoples who have been so distantly spread away from each other reconnected the world. Tomorrow, the modern world reconnects with the ancient as Eggertsson's ship, the Islendingur, sets sail for Newfoundland.
History comes full circle, just as humanity did a thousand years ago.
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