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 ...

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L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site contains the excavated remains of a complete 11th-century Viking settlement, the earliest evidence ... being managed as a National Historic Site by Parks ...

In this area of Canada, in a place called evidence L'Anse aux Meadows, archaeologists have discovered evidence of a Viking settlement – it might even have been built by Leif!

This windswept coastal outpost is the very spot where Norse sailors first settled in North America, the only authenticated Viking site ... and a film detailing the settlement's history.

They are a legacy of both Christian faith and Viking settlement on the island, with carvings ranging from simple crosses to complex depictions of Christian and Scandinavian themes. The two stones were ...