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The Norse exploration has been subject to numerous controversies concerning the European exploration and settlement of North America. [6] Pseudoscientific and pseudohistorical theories have emerged since the public acknowledgment of these Norse expeditions and settlements.
The Norse exploration of North America has been subject to numerous controversies concerning the European exploration and settlement of North America. [6] Pseudoscientific and pseudohistorical theories have emerged since the public acknowledgment of these Norse expeditions and settlements. [6]
L'Anse aux Meadows is the only confirmed Norse site in North America outside Greenland, [32] and represents the farthest known extent of European exploration and settlement of the New World before the voyages of Christopher Columbus almost 500 years later.
Vinland was the name given to part of North America by the Icelandic Norseman Leif Eriksson, about 1000 AD. It was also spelled Winland, [4] as early as Adam of Bremen's Descriptio insularum Aquilonis ("Description of the Northern Islands", ch. 39, in the 4th part of Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum), written circa 1075.
Satellite images may have led scientists to the second known Viking settlement in North America.
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
c. 1350: The Norse Western Settlement in Greenland was abandoned. 1354: King Magnus of Sweden and Norway authorised Paul Knutson to lead an expedition to Greenland which may never have taken place. c.1450–1480s: [2] The Norse Eastern Settlement in Greenland was abandoned during the opening stages of the Little Ice Age [broken anchor].
Researchers believe they have reliable evidence that shows Vikings beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by about 500 years.