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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.
Leif Erikson U.S. commemorative stamp, issued 1968
The Norse settlement of North America, including Greenland, began in the late 10th century AD and lasted for about 500 years. Further west, the evidence is more limited. Only one Canadian settlement h
Norse silhouette sculpture above L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada
Remains of stables on Greenland
A runestick from Herjolfsnes