My family actually visited this little museum around 1982. Drove from Connecticut all the way up. At that time, the drive up Newfoundland was epic. On the rare occasion we would see someone by the road, they would stop whatever they were doing and stare as we drove by, as they'd seen no one in a week. There were racks of codfish drying in the sun as if we drove into the 19th century and back.
Flew into Portland, Maine, drove up to Lanse aux Meadows and worth every mile. SO interesting! Archeological digs happening. Gas up, top off when you can - not when you have to ... trust me on this. Stayed at B&B THE BIG BLOW, Quirpon. Lovely.
I don't understand, this is the first Viking village recorded and found in North America and yet, Canada and the US don't seem to care very much about it. Both of your countries should be ashamed of yourselves ignoring these very historical records of the Vikings here in North America. What are you going to do about it?
So what more should they be doing? Extensive archaeology has been done, people continue to look for other sites, the site has been recreated, numerous books have been written, etc. Technically L'anse aux Meadows is not the first known Norse site in North America. Greenland is part of North America thus its settlements are the first known.
@@EdinburghFive Greenland is officially not part of North-America or the North-American continent and never was but belongs to Denmark. Get your political and geographical knowledge correct before make a stupid statement.
Hey @@siggizippan8076 - Before you throw around insults, which tends to be the refuge of those who are not well informed, you should check your facts. Political power and jurisdiction does not change geography. Denmark indeed was the European legal entity that politically controls Greenland. But geographically Greenland is still part of North America. So if you are correct, was much of Canada and the USA really geographically Europe when France and/or Britain controlled vast areas? Mexico was really part of Europe geographically when Spain controlled it? Hey, in more recent times Hong Kong was part of Europe geographically when it was politically controlled by Britain. And on and on. The answer of course is no, these places were not geographically Europe.
Sigga, it's been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Parks Canada maintains it as a visitors site, including a museum and recreation of 1000 A.D. era Norse buildings similar to the original buildings archioloigists unearthed.
It never had trees. "vin" in Danish/Norwegian is "grass", not the misread 'vine'. Beautiful place. I was there in 2000 for the arrival of the replica ship from Norway.
@@S35Somua It seems it could be "natural meadow" and vine..? Remember a 1000 years ago it was warmer. It could also point to another place in Canada and nothern parts of US. (Vineland.)
