"Vinland was explored because it had been discovered ... the Vikings wanted to establish permanent settlements in North America. "Whether they sought to establish long-term/permanent settlements ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America ... which he called Vinland the Good. The 1960 discovery ...

Even the Vinland sagas, which chronicle events around ... of years before Columbus arrived in America]. Vikings in North America NOVA: Why did they abandon L'Anse aux Meadows?

There is also the saga of Leif Eriksson's voyage to Vinland—the mysterious spot on which he landed in North America. The exact location of Vinland is debated among scholars, but it is generally ...

Vinland was an area of coastal North America explored and briefly settled by Vikings around 1000 CE, nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus 'discovered' the Americas. In Assassin's Creed ...

The precise identity of Vinland remains uncertain, with various locations on the North American coast identified. In 1963, archaeologists found ruins of a Viking-type settlement at L'Anse aux ...

The titular "Vinland" is the name that Viking explorer Leif Erikson gave to North America after reaching its shores, and in the series, that far off land represents a wish to escape to a better ...