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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Raleigh Ashlin Skelton (21 December 1906 – 7 December 1970) is best known for his work on the history of cartography and particularly his attempts to prove the authenticity of the Vinland map. Life [ edit ]
Helluland (Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈhelːoˌlɑnd]) is the name given to one of the three lands, the others being Vinland and Markland, seen by Bjarni Herjólfsson, encountered by Leif Erikson and further explored by Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson around AD 1000 on the North Atlantic coast of North America. [1]
Erik the Red's thralls start a landslide that destroys a farm, leading to a feud that results in Erik's banishment first from the district and then from Iceland; he sails in search of land that had been reported to lie to the north, and explores and names Greenland, choosing an attractive name to encourage colonists.
In Vinland, Gudrid bore Thorfinn a boy, Snorri, [9] [10] who was the first child of European descent known to have been born in the New World. Many Icelanders trace their roots to Snorri. The exact location of Thorfinn's colony is unknown, though it may have been the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.