Vinland
Sign in to savethumb|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
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Vinland was a coastal area of North America that Norse Vikings explored around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before Columbus, with Leif Erikson being a notable early explorer there. The name comes from the Vinland sagas and refers to a region beyond Greenland, Helluland, and Markland, making it significant as evidence of pre-Columbian European contact with North America.
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18 sectionsContents
- Name
- The Vinland sagas
- ''Saga of the Greenlanders''
- ''Saga of Erik the Red''
- Medieval geographers
- Adam of Bremen
- Galvano Fiamma
- Sigurd Stefansson
- Later Norse voyages
- Controversy over the location of Vinland
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Vinland in Colonial Discourses
- Life in Vinland
- Other possible Norse finds
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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 North America.
In 1960, archaeological evidence of the only known Norse site in North America, L'Anse aux Meadows, was found on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. Before the discovery of archaeological evidence, Vinland was known only from the sagas and medieval historiography. The 1960 discovery further proved the pre-Columbian Norse exploration of mainland North America. Archaeologists found butternuts at L'Anse aux Meadows, which indicates voyages into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as far as northeastern New Brunswick. L'Anse aux Meadows has been hypothesized to be the camp Straumfjörð mentioned in the Saga of Erik the Red.