Vinland
Vinland is an area Leif Erikson settled in the Vinland Sagas. The vines the name refers to could also have been blackcurrant. Even today, blackcurrant is called Vinbär ("wine-berry") in Swedish. The earliest known reference outside the Sagas is from Adam of Bremen (1076) in Gesta Hammaburgensis: "Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes. Nam et fruges ibi non seminatas habundare, non fabulosa opinione, sed certa comperimus relatione Danorum." This can be translated as: "In addition [the king of the Danes] reports on one of many islands in the ocean, which is called Winland, because vines grow there wild, which produce wine. That there are fruit in abundance which have non been [planted], we have not known from an incredible rumour, but from the report of the Danes."
Vinland Media
Recreated Norse long house, L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1978.
The beginning of the Saga of Erik the Red (13th-century manuscript)
Church of Hvalsey, one of the best preserved remnants from the Norse settlement in Greenland.
Simiutaq Island, Greenland, as seen from the Davis Strait. This has been suggested to be a suitable starting point for a crossing to Canada
Baffin Island, possible location of Helluland
Leif Erikson U.S. commemorative stamp, issued 1968
The Skálholt Map showing Latinized Norse placenames in the North Atlantic:Template:Bulleted list*
Viking colonization site at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland
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References
- Adam von Bremen (1076?): „Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum“ (Latin) Archived 2007-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. UNESCOUNESCO. Retrieved 21 June 2020.