The Norse Discovery of America

Norse colonization of North America

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    The Norsemen traveled extensively over the oceans, south to the Holy Land, and north to the White Sea and settled over a wide area from Sicily to Greenland. Historical sources, including the reports by Adam of Bremen and the Icelandic Sagas, describe several expeditions from Greenland to Vinland somewhere along the east coast of North America in approximately AD and later. Historians have arrived at highly different conclusions with respect to the location of Vinland from Labrador to Georgia , but, in , the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad localized ancient house sites on L'Ans aux Meadows, a small fishing village on the Northern beaches of Newfoundland.

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    From to , Ingstad and his wife, Anne Stine an archaeologist , led several archaeological expeditions that revealed Viking turf houses with room for approximately people. They also excavated a smithy, outdoor cooking pits, boathouses, a bathhouse, and enclosures for cattle, in addition to several Viking artifacts. The present report reviews historical and archaeological evidence indicating the sites to which the Vikings traveled and attempted to settle in the new world.

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    Don't already have an Oxford Academic account? Instead, the Viking explorer had heard of a strange land to the west from Icelandic trader Bjarni Herjolfsson, who more than a decade earlier had overshot Greenland and sailed by the shores of North America without setting foot upon it.

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    After crossing the Atlantic, the Vikings encountered a rocky, barren land in present-day Canada. The Norsemen then voyaged south to a timber-rich location they called Markland Forestland , most likely in present-day Labrador, before finally setting up a base camp likely on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland.

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    The colony began to decline in the 14th century. He was the second winter at Holm in Hrafnsgnipa, but the third summer went he to Iceland, and came with his ship into Breidafjord. Greenland is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Claims Newfoundland New Albion? For your Viking Fix. The Norsemen then voyaged south to a timber-rich location they called Markland Forestland , most likely in present-day Labrador, before finally setting up a base camp likely on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. Settlements in continental North America aimed to exploit natural resources such as furs and in particular lumber, which was in short supply in Greenland.

    The Vikings spent an entire winter there and benefitted from the milder weather compared to their homeland. They explored the surrounding region abounding with lush meadows, rivers teeming with salmon, and wild grapes so suitable for wine that Eriksson called the region Vinland Wineland. After spending the winter in Vinland, Eriksson and his crew sailed home to windswept Greenland with badly needed timber and plentiful portions of grapes.