Where Vikings Actually Landed in North America: The Norse Settlement in Newfoundland
Around the year 1000 CE, Norse voyagers from Greenland built the first European settlement in North America at what we now call the L’Anse aux Meadows site on Newfoundland’s northern tip. This Norse settlement in Newfoundland predates Columbus by nearly 500 years, rewriting the narrative of transatlantic contact and proving that Viking sagas describing lands west of Greenland weren’t mere mythology.
The discovery of this settlement in 1960 by Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and …
