The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, caused a sensation, proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

The Vikings were marauders ... bay at the end of a great peninsula at the northern tip of what is now Newfoundland. There they built a wayfaring station and a repair depot for their ships.

After establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D., the Vikings reached what is now ...

We know for a fact, for instance, that there were Vikings in Newfoundland 1,000 years ago – but what they were up to while they were there has always been a little more mysterious. A new ...

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But in the years to come, other Viking explorers would go even further. Objects dug up in Newfoundland tell us that the Vikings set up a trading camp there, and that makes them the first Europeans ...

Archaeological research at Epaves Bay on the northern edge of Newfoundland exposed the remains ... showing that Vinland housed a permanent Viking settlement. By the time the archeologists weighed ...