A Norse settlement.
There was a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, called Vinland. It only lasted a couple of years before the Vikings abandoned it.
How did the vikings eventually establish vinland?
The first European settlement in the lands now part of the Canadian Confederation would be the Viking settlement at what is now called L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The exact name used for the settlement by the Vikings is not known but it is part of the area they called Vinland. The Vikings also appeared to have settled on Baffin Island, an area they called Helluland.
Yes Leif Erickson was a viking, and found America but named it Vinland.
Vinland
Some archaeologists think Vinland was located in Newfoundland, Canada. Evidence of an ancient Viking settlement was discovered in the 1960s at L'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland.
They established a settlement in Newfoundland, called Vinland, which they abandoned after a couple of years.
A Norse settlement.
There was a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, called Vinland. It only lasted a couple of years before the Vikings abandoned it.
How did the vikings eventually establish vinland?
Vinland
Leif Erikson.
1389
Leif Ericson.
1389
The Viking settlement at Vinland was small, isolated, and under frequent attack from the Beothuks, the First Nations people who had first come to the Island of Newfoundland about a thousand years before.