L'Anse aux Meadows
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L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located near St. Anthony on the northernmost tip
Recreated Norse buildings at L'Anse aux Meadows
A model depicting the Norse settlement established at L'Anse aux Meadows
Anne Stine Ingstad at L'Anse aux Meadows, 1963. Ingstad, along with her husband, led an archaeological excavation of the site.
The remains of Norse buildings on display. The remains of seven Norse buildings were uncovered during the Ingstads' excavation of the site.
Vinland
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Vinland, Vineland, or Winland was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around AD 1000, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and J
L'Anse aux Meadows
…Helge Ingstad and archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, who led an international team excavating during 1961–1968. Based on the idea that the Old Norse name Vinland in the Icelandic Sagas meant "wine-land", historians had long speculated that the Norse had landed in a region with wild grapes. The common hypothesis…
Recreated Norse long house, L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1978.
The beginning of the Saga of Erik the Red (13th-century manuscript)
Church of Hvalsey, one of the best preserved remnants from the Norse settlement in Greenland.
Baffin Island, possible location of Helluland