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Information trouvée : Dr. Helge Ingstad, an honorary graduate of Memorial University, passed away March
29. Dr. Ingstad, who died in Oslo at the age of 101, was the Norwegian explorer who
discovered the Viking settlement in Newfoundland at L'Anse aux Meadows, proving that
the Norsemen discovered America 500 years before Christopher Columbus. In the late
1950s he searched the coast of Labrador, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, looking for
Vinland, a name from the Icelandic sagas, which told the story of how Leif Eriksson
sailed from Greenland and settled on a distant coast. Late in 1960, in Newfoundland,
a local fisherman, George Decker, tipped him off to a place near St. Anthony, on the
northern tip of Newfoundland. He saw the mounds that hinted at a settlement and he
was convinced it was a Viking site, though until that time people thought it was an
old Indian settlement. The next year he returned with his wife, Anne Stine, a Norwegian
archeologist. The significance of the Ingstads’ discoveries at L'Anse aux Meadows
was immediately recognized by the Newfoundland government, which declared it an ancient
monument. The site was named a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
Westward to Vinland / Helge Ingstad ;trad. by Erik J. Friis, 1969
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