L’anse Aux Meadows. The only completely authenticated European site in North America, a Norse settlement dating back to around 1000 AD. Discovered on Newfoundland in 1961. Studies of ancient Icelandic sagas indicate that this was the land known as Vinland to the Vikings. Leif Erikson, the son of Erik the Red, is credited with first landing in Vinland.
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