the vikings also seem to be heavily involved considering their shipbuilding skills.         great quality stuff, def looking into this and it got me thinking when you mentioned that the most recent information available regarding historical accounts dating back to the 1500s and 1600s, is around the time when the corpus hermeticum was being translated to latin. lots of possible jesuit influence as well which could have supplanted the role of gatekeeping much of the knowledge previously known and interpreted by earliest documented observations and interactions of tribes.
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