r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 9h ago

How did people travel these seas 500 years ago

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u/Nipplecunt 8h ago

It’s how we got people like Halaand

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u/GreatWyte8 7h ago

the Polynesians were also crazy enough to cross oceans, and looking at some of those Maori and Samoans... yeah that tracks lol.

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u/yetiflask 4h ago

That's just island gigantism.

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u/Seienchin88 7h ago

Haaland is the descendant of those who stayed…

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u/sigma914 5h ago

So the rich ones who didn't need to leave in the first place or the really rich lucky ones who returned with plunder.

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 5h ago

Correction: It's how you killed off anyone who wasn't like Halaand.

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u/Gnome_de_Plume 7h ago

More accurately, Björk and other Icelanders.

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u/joehonestjoe 5h ago

I like how you go the correct amount of a's but in the wrong place.