The Hønen Runestone was discovered in Norderhov, Norway, shortly before 1817, but it was subsequently lost.
According to the 1880 Sephton translation of the saga, Rafn and other Danish scholars placed Kjalarnes at Cape Cod, Straumfjörð at Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, and Straumsey at Martha's Vineyard. However, an Icelandic law text gives a very specific explanation of "eykt", with reference to Norse navigation techniques.
Lawrence River and parts of New Brunswick, the northern limit for both butternut and wild grapes (Vitis riparia). Another proposal for the name's etymology, was introduced by Sven Söderberg in 1898 (first published in 1910).
Lawrence River and parts of New Brunswick, the northern limit for both butternut and wild grapes (Vitis riparia). Another proposal for the name's etymology, was introduced by Sven Söderberg in 1898 (first published in 1910).
Munn (1864–1939), after studying literary sources in Europe, suggested in his 1914 book Location of Helluland, Markland & Vinland from the Icelandic Sagas that the Vinland explorers "went ashore at Lancey Meadows, as it is called to-day".
Old Norse vin (from Proto-Norse winju) has a meaning of "meadow, pasture". This interpretation of Vinland as "pasture-land" rather than "wine-land" was accepted by Valter Jansson in his classic 1951 dissertation on the vin-names of Scandinavia, by way of which it entered popular knowledge in the later 20th century.
Its discovery by an amateur archaeologist in 1957 is controversial; questions have been raised whether it was planted as a hoax.
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 (outside Greenland) was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland.
The 1960 discovery further proved the pre-Columbian Norse exploration of mainland North America.
In 1960 the remains of a small Norse encampment were discovered by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad at that exact spot, L'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland, and excavated during the 1960s and 1970s.
According to a 1969 article by Douglas McManis in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, This leads him to conclude that "there is not a Vinland, there are many Vinlands".
According to a 1970 reply by Matti Kaups in the same journal, In geographical terms, Vinland is sometimes used to refer generally to all areas in North America beyond Greenland that were explored by the Norse.
In 1960 the remains of a small Norse encampment were discovered by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad at that exact spot, L'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland, and excavated during the 1960s and 1970s.
The sun is indeed just above the horizon at these times on the shortest days of the year in northern Newfoundland - but not much farther north. A 2012 article by Jónas Kristjánsson et al.
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