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A millennia ago, the Vikings sailed across the Atlantic to the New World. It is believed that they briefly settled in Newfoundland, Canada at L’Anse aux Meadows. Viking sagas refer to three other New World Viking sites as well. Viking tales of “Helluland” are believed to be in northernmost Canada’s Baffin Island while Viking tales of “Markland” are widely accepted as referring to Labrador, Canada. However, the location of the third site that is mentioned in Viking sagas still remains a mystery. That mysterious Viking site is called “Vinland” or “wine land.”
Norseman Leif Ericson, (who is believed to be the first European explorer to have set foot in North America 500 years before Columbus) is said to have led a North American expedition to a place he named “Vinland” where he wished to gather grapes for wine and cut wood for his ship. Grapes do not grow in any of the other known Viking sites in Canada. Moreover, a Norwegian coin dated between 1065 and 1080 was found as far south as Maine in a 1957 archaeological dig. No one knows how a Viking coin appeared over 500 miles south of Newfoundland.
How far south did the Vikings go after their brief stay in North America’s most northern regions? Did the love of grapes and wine lure the Vikings to the Green Mountains and to more hospitable climates? Ponder the many mysteries of the Vikings while you stay in one of the cozy, thatched roof cabins of Viking Villages in the charming forests of Guilford, Vermont.
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