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The Vinland map first came to light in 1957 (three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum (usually called in English the Tartar Relation), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian ...
Vinland likely includes Newfoundland and possibly other areas around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. [42] There has long been debate about identifying any of the three "lands" to actual, known locations in North America. Vinland in particular has been the topic of widely divergent claims and theories. [52] In 2019 archaeologist Birgitta Wallace wrote:
The Vinland map is purportedly a 15th century Mappa Mundi, redrawn from a 13th century original and owned by Yale University. Drawn with black ink on animal skin, the map is the first known depiction of the North American coastline, created before Columbus' 1492 voyage.
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map (2004) ISBN 0804749639; In Quisling's Shadow: The Memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's First Wife, Alexandra (1999) ISBN 0817948325; The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500 (1996) ISBN 0804731616; Novels. Mørke skyer over Solhellinga (2007) Das Kuckucks Kind ...
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Freydís Eiríksdóttir (born c. 965) [1] was an Icelandic woman said to be the daughter of Erik the Red (as in her patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of North America as an early colonist of Vinland, while her brother, Leif Erikson, is credited in early histories of the region with the first European contact.
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L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. ' Meadows Cove ') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony.