Viking Age in Canada

norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)

archaeological site on the island of Newfoundland, Canada

thumb|Recreated Norsemen|Norse long house, [[L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1978.]] Vinland, Vineland, or Winland () was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, 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 transatlantic travel and No

Icelandic explorer

Icelandic saga about the Norse exploration of North America

Norse explorer, first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas

purported 15th century New World map shown to be a 20th century fake

alt=map with Vinland, Greenland, and other areas shown as a parts of a large continent bordering the western and northern edges of the Atlantic, full text at link |thumb|upright=1.3|The [[Skálholt Map showing Latinized Norse placenames in the North Atlantic:

Helluland () is one of the three lands, the others being Vinland and Markland, seen by Bjarni Herjólfsson, encountered by Leif Erikson and further explored by Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson around AD 1000 on the North Atlantic coast of North America. As some writers refer to all land beyond Greenland as Vinland, Helluland is sometimes considered a part of Vinland.

Norwegian explorer (1899–2001)

Icelandic explorer

Daughter of Erik the Red

Icelandic explorer

island in Nunavut, Canada

archaeological site in Nunavut, Canada