[Sca-cooks] Vikings in Minnesota

Antonia Calvo ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Sun Sep 21 18:48:34 PDT 2008


tudorpot at gmail.com wrote:

> As posted earlier- http://www.nova-scotia-icelanders.ednet.ns.ca/ 
> news.html
> It seems that there were several settlements of vikings in Canada.


There was _one_ known Viking settlement in Canada-- at 
L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland, (slightly) settled by Vikings in the 
late 10th/early 11th century.

People who arrived in the 19th century were _not_ Vikings.

-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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