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
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
Vinland sagas
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The Vinland sagas are two Icelandic texts written independently of each other in the early 13th century—the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red. The sagas were written down between 1
Vinland
…Leif Erikson landed there around AD 1000, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The name appears in the Vinland sagas and describes a land beyond Greenland, Helluland, and Markland. Much of the geographical content of the sagas corresponds to present-day knowledge of…
Summer in the Greenland coast c.1000 by Carl Rasmussen
Christian Krohg Leiv Eirikson discovering America Google Art Project