A panoramic view of L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada Bob Hilscher/Getty Photographs
Earlier than Christopher Columbus, Vikings have been the primary Europeans to succeed in the Americas. We now know to the yr after they have been there. Norse folks have been chopping down bushes in Newfoundland within the yr AD 1021, in order that they should have crossed the Atlantic Ocean by then.
“Precisely a millennium in the past, human beings for the primary time in historical past had obtained throughout [the Atlantic],” says Michael Dee on the College of Groningen within the Netherlands.
Proof for a Norse presence in North …
