Hóp (Vinland)
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland () was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas and describes a land beyond Greenland, Helluland, and Markland. Much of the geographical content of the sagas corresponds to present-day knowledge of transatlantic travel and North America. In 1960, archaeological evidence of the only known Norse site in North America, L'Anse aux Meadows, was found on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. Before the discovery of archaeological evidence, Vinland was known only from the sagas and medieval historiography. The 1960 discovery further proved the pre-Columbian Norse exploration of mainland North America. Archaeologists found butternuts at L'Anse aux Meadows, which indicates voyages into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as far as northeastern New Brunswick. L'Anse aux Meadows ...
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L'Anse Aux Meadows, Recreated Long House
L'Anse may refer to: ;In Canada: *L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland *L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec ;In the United States *L'Anse, Michigan, a village in the Upper Peninsula *L'Anse Township, Michigan *L'Anse Indian Reservation ;Elsewhere: *L'Anse Mitan, Trinidad and Tobago {{geodis ...
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