The earliest map of Vinland was drawn by Sigurd Stefansson, a schoolmaster at Skalholt, Iceland, around 1570, which placed Vinland somewhere that can be Chesapeake Bay, St. Lawrence, …

Oct 31, 2025 · Vinland, the land of wild grapes in North America that was visited and named by Leif Eriksson about the year 1000 ce. Its exact location is not known, but it was probably the …

Sep 10, 2018 · Vinland (Old Norse Vínland, 'Wine Land') is the name given to the lands explored and briefly settled by Norse Vikings in North America around 1000 CE, particularly referring to …

2 days ago · The Vinland Map gained worldwide attention when it appeared to show parts of North America long before Columbus. It suggested Viking explorers had charted the region …

All the available evidence points to Vinland being in the Gulf of St. Lawrence area. L’Anse aux Meadows is too far north to have produced the wild grapes mention in the Vinland Sagas, …

Jan 2, 2025 · Vinland is a historical area in North America that was visited by Norse explorers around 1000 AD. This land, often referred to as “wine land,” likely features locations in what is …

Sep 29, 2025 · Vinland is the name of the territory of North America given by the Icelandic viking Leif Eriksson approximately in 986. In 1960, in the town of L’Ans-o-Meadows on the island of …

Feb 24, 2018 · Vinland is what the medieval Norse Sagas called the decade-long Viking settlement in North America, the first European attempt at establishing a trading base in North …

Vinland, Vineland, or Winland was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before t...

In addition to showing Africa, Asia and Europe, the map depicts a landmass south-west of Greenland in the Atlantic labelled as Vinland (Vinlanda Insula). The map describes this region …