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Nordic settlers, or Vikings, landed in northern Newfoundland around the year 1000 A.D . They came from Greenland, Iceland, and Scandinavia.

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Who landed in Newfoundland about 1000 years ago?

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Who landed in Newfoundland 500 years before Cabot?

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