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The Vikings

The first Europeans in North America...?. The Vikings. - Long debated through anectodal evidence but confirmed in 1960 - Norwegian explorer and writer, Helge Ingstad, came upon the site at L'Anse aux Meadows

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The Vikings

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  1. The first Europeans in North America...? The Vikings

  2. - Long debated through anectodal evidence but confirmed in 1960 - Norwegian explorer and writer, Helge Ingstad, came upon the site at L'Anse aux Meadows - he travelled all along the eastern seaboard of North America to find the physical evidence...and finally did..it was in northern Newfoundland and was named L'Anse Aux Meadows (Jellyfish Bay)‏ The Evidence...

  3. L’Anse Aux Meadows Norse garbage heaps (middens). Norse people always threw their garbage out their front door…

  4. - Much of the evidence prior to this discovery was in the form of Icelandic “sagas” known as the The Saga of the Greenlanders. - these “sagas” outline the colonization of Greenland by Eric the Red and the explorations of his children and others (especially his son Leif Ericsson who is believed to have discovered North America)‏ More Evidence...

  5. Vinland Map • Map found in by Yale scholars in 1965 • Supposedly “proves” that the Vikings arrived in North America before Christopher Columbus. • The VINLAND Map was found in another works called the TARTAR RELATION and the SPECUULUM HISTORIALE…dated to 1437. • Question is…was it a forgery?

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