The Viking colonization of the Americas

Hello again ! Today I am going to talk about the Viking colonization of the Americas. It is thought that were the first Europeans in America but today we know that the Vikings were there first.

Viking colonization of the Americas or the Scandinavian colonization was ,  concerned to Greenland and an implantation in Newfoundland , called Vinland.

The Vikings are probably the first civilization of the "old world" to join America. Around the year 1000 , Leif Erikson sailed from Greenland to a point still to be discovered in North America (perhaps on the current site of Bay St. Lawrence, north of Cape Breton ) he called Vinland , which makes him the north European discoverer of America . A little later , Thorfinnr Karlsefni installs a village in Newfoundland , L'Anse aux Meadows (now listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco ) he calls Straumfjörðr . Snorri was born in 1014 , son of Thorfinn Karlsefni and Gudrid , the first European born in Vinland. 

The Vikings named American lands with Nordic names :
Grønland = Earth =  Greenland
Helluland = Earth = Baffin Island  Markland = Earth = Labrador forest
Straumfjörðr = L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland
Vinland = Earth =  Cape Breton, southern coast of Nova Scotia and northern coast of New England. It was also proposed as a translation of " fertile soil " 1 , and / or " land of meadows " 2.

Available sources are the sagas. It is prose written by clerics , scholars purposes , in Iceland between the eleventh century and fourteenth century. Often these texts combine reality and imagination , more or less established oral traditions and effects of romantic styles. Two sagas tell of the thirteenth century voyages of Leif Erikson and his father and the other explorer Vinland Thorfinnr Karlsefni : the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders Saga of Erik .
Before the nineteenth century, the idea of a Viking settlement in North America was considered by historians as folklore products until the development in 1837 of a first hypothesis by serious historian literature and Danish archaeologist Carl Christian Rafn in his book Antiquitates Americanæ where he concluded , after a thorough study of the sagas , as well as potential settlement on the North American coast , that Vinland was a real place in North America which had been colonized by Norwegians.
The discovery in 1960 of the site of L'Anse aux Meadows by Norwegian explorer Dr. Helge Ingstad  and his archaeologist wife Anne Stine Ingstad  has reinforced this theory and the credibility of the sagas.
The Kensington Runestone discovered south of the Great Lakes in Minnesota, United States, is still the subject of controversial studies . Indeed, the engraved text reveals the presence of an expedition of twenty Vikings accompanied by a dozen Goths and all dated mid 1362 . Most historians consider this inscription , discovered in 1898 , as false or questionable . The issue is still debated.
                                              
                             Leiv Eiriksson discovers North America