Did Norse explorers name America Omme-Rike before Vespucci?

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Aufbauwerk 2045
Today I learned several interesting facts about America. Perhaps it's not named after "Amerigo" Vespucci after all.

The old Norse word for "Far Land" is Omme-rike. "Rike" is similar to the German word "Reich."

Columbus visited Iceland, a Norse country, years before he "discovered" America.

The Icelanders needed wood from somewhere. Much shorter and safer to sail to Greenland than to Europe, and from Greenland it was a certain landfall to the heavily wooded coasts of Omme-Rike.
 
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I would need some significant evidence before going with that "Omme-Rike" notion.
Amerigo put his name of the maps of America that he drew.
The Nordic culture was not well known to the New World adventurers.
 
FWIW - Mousterian (France) and Clovis (New World) neolithic technology were somewhat contemporary - that is the points and cutting tools have a lot of unique features that they share. Some scholars have posited the clovis people may have been a European derived culture. This is on a level with your Omme-Rike concept.

This whole problem is why scholars go with written documents, stelae, runestones, or monuments when they exist. That they are completely correct is impossible to prove, but it is far better than anything else we have. As @.Scott mentioned. This is the why of it.
 
I see. Next thing you'll be telling me that my family tree going back to Adam and Eve via some Norse warlords is not authentic. Go ahead and destroy all my fantasies while you are at it.

LOL

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