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Historic
Attractions & Museums - L'Anse aux Meadows
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| Leif Ericson and his fellow adventurers stayed
only a short while and disappeared into the mists of history, remembered
only in Norse sagas. Then in 1960 Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad
discovered the ruins of the settlement. Over the next decade, he and his
wife Anne Stine Ingstad, and archaeologists from Parks Canada excavated
the site and proved conclusively it was Norse, carbon dating artifacts to
the year 1000 A.D. In 1978, it was declared a World Heritage Site by the
United Nations, and it is also a National Historic Site. |
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L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
P.O. Box 70
Criquet, NL, A0K 2X0
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Norstead - A Real Life Saga
P.O. Box 251
St. Anthony, NL, A0K 4T0
(more information)
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