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"The Norse colonization of North America began in the late 10th century AD when Norsemen explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic including the northeastern fringes of North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_North_America


The most powerful and elite leaders in Iceland were the chieftains (sing. goði, pl. goðar). The office of the goði was called the goðorð.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%B3thttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%B3t

Blót is the term for "sacrifice" in Norse paganism. A blót could be dedicated to any of the Norse gods, the spirits of the land, and to ancestors. The sacrifice involved aspects of a sacramental meal or feast.

The cognate term blōt or geblōt in Old English would have referred to comparable traditions in Anglo-Saxon paganism

The verb blóta meant "to worship with sacrifice", or "to strengthen"
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"Frans Janszen Bloetgoet was born around 1623. He was the son of Jan Heyndrickse Goetbloet (or Bloetgoet) and Geertgen Thomas, both of Gouda, South Holland. He was living on the Corten Tiendewech, Gouda when he married Lysbeth Jans, of Gouda on 18 February 1645 at Reeuwijk, near Gouda.

The couple emigrated soon after their marriage. They brought with them their child, Geertie when they emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1659.

 Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware River in 1659.

They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673.

 Bloodgood had acquired land, sheep and cattle by the time of his death.[3] Frans Bloetgoet and his wife both belonged to the New York Dutch Church, and all but two of their children were baptized there.

On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet