Tinganes in Tórshavn and the White House in Washington is immense. Thousands of kilometers divide the United States from the Faroe Islands. But this did not deter the Norse a thousand years ago. In fragile [...] they discovered America a long time before Columbus. In this way the Nordic peoples and Americans have quite a few things in common. Our ties are in reality a thousand years old. They broke and remained [...] fragile wooden boats they set sail from the Northern seas across the Atlantic and settled in the American mainland. ??The Nordic settlers did not stay for long on the American mainland. But archaeological studies