Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad (his wife) in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. Wikipedia
Norse explorer from Iceland. Thought to have been the first known European to have set foot on continental North America , approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. Wikipedia
The Norse colonization of North America began in the late 10th century CE when Norsemen explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic including the northeastern fringes of North America. Remains of Norse buildings were found at L'Anse aux Meadows near the northern tip of Newfoundland in 1960. Wikipedia
Continuing effort to map and explore the continent and advance the economic interests of said non-indigenous peoples of North America. It spanned centuries, and consisted of efforts by numerous people and expeditions from various foreign countries to map the continent. Wikipedia
History of North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America. Widely believed that continent first became a human habitat when people migrated across the Bering Sea 40,000 to 17,000 years ago, recent discoveries may have pushed those estimates back at least another 90,000 years. Wikipedia
The period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. Wikipedia
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- However, the first recorded European references to North America (other than Greenland) are around 1000 AD in Norse sagas where it is referred to as Vinland.North America-Wikipedia
- In the 11th century, Old Norse was the most widely spoken European language, ranging from Vinland in the West to the Volga River in the East.Old Norse-Wikipedia
- The first recorded European references to North America are in Norse sagas where it is referred to as Vinland.North America-Wikipedia
- The earliest recorded European mention of America is in a historical treatise by the medieval chronicler Adam of Bremen, circa 1075, where it is referred to as Vinland.History of the United States-Wikipedia
- Leif's third landing was at a place he called Vinland (possibly Newfoundland).Newfoundland and Labrador-Wikipedia
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