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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 ...
The site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1978. [1] Vinland, Vineland, [2] [3] or Winland [4] (Old Norse: Vínland hit góða, lit. 'Vinland the Good') was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Eriksson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John ...
Vinland map. During the mid-1960s, Yale University announced the acquisition of a map purportedly drawn around 1440 that showed Vinland and a legend concerning Norse voyages to the region. [125] However certain experts doubted the authenticity of the map, based on linguistic and cartographic inconsistencies.
The map was acquired by Yale in the mid-1960s and was said to be the earliest depiction of the New World. Yale University's controversial Vinland Map is a fake, new study confirms Skip to main content
Summer in the Greenland coast c.1000 by Carl Rasmussen Possible routes traveled in Saga of Eric the Red and Saga of the Greenlanders. The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts written independently of each other in the early 13th century—The Saga of the Greenlanders (Grænlendinga Saga) and The Saga of Erik the Red (Eiríks Saga Rauða).
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 ...
The saga has numerous parallels to the Saga of the Greenlanders, including recurring characters and accounts of the same expeditions and events, but differs in describing two base camps, at Straumfjord and Hop, whereas in the Saga of the Greenlanders Thorfinn Karlsefni and those with him settle in a place that is referred to simply as Vinland ...
The Greenlanders' Saga and the Saga of Erik the Red, which were written in the 13th century, use this same term for the people of the area known as Vinland whom the Norse met in the early 11th century. The word subsequently became well known, and has been used in the English language since the 18th century.