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User Polls What is your favorite opening line from a movie? Edit Cast Cast overview: Monk One Noelle Bailey Abenaki Woman Gaby Hoffmann Orn's Wife James Fuentes Abenaki Man Clare Amory Volnard's Sister Nathan Corbin Viking Thrall Sean Dooley Edit Storyline On the coast of North America in AD , two Norsemen are stranded when their expedition is attacked and they are left for dead. Edit Details Official Sites: Official site Official site. Edit Did You Know? Trivia The film takes place in Add the first question. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this.
The Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America
Eriksson, who is believed to have been born in Iceland around A. There, King Olaf I Tryggvason converted him to Christianity and charged him with proselytizing the religion to the pagan settlers of Greenland. These Norse stories were spread by word of mouth before becoming recorded in the 12th and 13th centuries. Two sagas give differing accounts as to how Eriksson arrived in North America.
Instead, the Viking explorer had heard of a strange land to the west from Icelandic trader Bjarni Herjolfsson, who more than a decade earlier had overshot Greenland and sailed by the shores of North America without setting foot upon it. After crossing the Atlantic, the Vikings encountered a rocky, barren land in present-day Canada.
The Norsemen then voyaged south to a timber-rich location they called Markland Forestland , most likely in present-day Labrador, before finally setting up a base camp likely on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland.
The Vikings spent an entire winter there and benefitted from the milder weather compared to their homeland. They explored the surrounding region abounding with lush meadows, rivers teeming with salmon, and wild grapes so suitable for wine that Eriksson called the region Vinland Wineland. After spending the winter in Vinland, Eriksson and his crew sailed home to windswept Greenland with badly needed timber and plentiful portions of grapes.
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