Vikings and Skraelings: full circle

The settlements in Greenland that the Norse at L’Anse aux Meadows came from had been founded in AD 985, with probably fewer than a thousand Norse in Greenland in 1021, writes Gwynne Dyer.

The foundations of a large Viking house, at L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland. Many people suspected that ‘Vinland,' as the Norse called it, was never meant to be a permanent colony. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 26, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—It was already known that the first and only Norse settlement in North America was at L’Anse aux Meadows, at the northern tip of Newfoundland. The specialists even assumed that it happened in the early 11th century, because the Viking sagas more or less said so. But the traditional ...

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