The Viking Discovery of America

PRIS: GRATIS
DATO 2010-05-11
FORFATTER Helge Ingstad
ISBN 9788272011733
FILSTØRRELSE 5,15 MB
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... recounts that Eriksson's voyage to North America was no fluke. Instead, the Viking explorer had heard of a strange land to the west from Icelandic trader Bjarni Herjolfsson, who more than a decade earlier had overshot Greenland and sailed by the shores of North America without setting foot upon it. The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland [Helge Ingstad, Anne Stine Ingstad] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Provides an account of the seven expeditions the authors made to L'Anse aux Meadows between 1961 and 1968 This discovery aided the reignition of archaeological exploration for the Norse in the North Atlantic. The Norse settlements in the North American island of Greenland lasted for almost 500 years. L'Anse aux Meadows, the only confirmed Norse site in present-day Canada, was small and did not last as long. It has been argued that Brendan reached North America, and a modern experiment proved that it...