Something About Canada's Viking Settlement Doesn't Make Sense Anymore

In 2021, three pieces of Norse wood were dated to a single year: 1021. But three butternuts from the same layer suggest North America's only accepted Viking site was never the destination. For more than sixty years, L'Anse aux Meadows, at the northern tip of Newfoundland, has been called the place where the Viking sagas touched solid ground. Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad found the site in 1960. Their digs uncovered sod halls, iron rivets, a bronze pin and a spindle whorl, and over the decades more than 800 Norse objects have come out of the ground. These finds back up what the Saga of the Greenlanders and Erik the Red's Saga say about voyages to Vinland around the year 1000. This video starts with the Indigenous peoples who lived on this shore for six thousand years. From there it covers the radiocarbon dates, the Vinland Map that Yale exposed as a forgery and the search at Point Rosee that found nothing. It ends with the Groningen study, which used a solar storm from 992 to work out the exact year Norse wood was cut. We also give the critics their strongest case. Then we look at why Birgitta Wallace believed this meadow was only a doorway to a richer land farther south, and that land has still not been found. Subscribe for more stories where the ground rewrites what we thought we knew about the human past. #Vikings #LAnseAuxMeadows #Archaeology