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June 17, 2016
Walking Through History - [Weirddave]Today I got to do something extraordinary: Today I walked in the footsteps of the first Europeans to set foot on North America. Today I visited L'Anse Aux Meadow.
In 1960, Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad, following clues from historic Viking sagas, arrived in Medee's Cove. The locals directed him to "Indian mounds" where their children played. Ingstad's excavation, and one that followed sponsored by the government of Canada, conclusively proved that Vikings had established a settlement in North America 500 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In 1975 L'Anse Aux Meadow was designated a national historic site, and in 1978 UNESCO declared that it was a world heritage site.
And then there is the actual site itself. Unlike any similar site I have been to, L'Anse Aux Meadow is completely open and accessible. When you go to Jamestown, for example, you don't see Jamestown, you see a reconstruction. Jamestown was on an island. You can't go there. Here, you're walking exactly where the Norsemen walked, you're looking at exactly the coast they looked at. Maybe it because of my love of history, but I definitely got a thrill up my spine and a tear of awe in my eye. Was this a bucket list kind of trip? I was in Newfoundland for a wedding, so yes. There was no way I was going to get to The Rock and NOT see L'Anse Aux Meadow. Sinking my fingers into the same muskeg that Leif Erikson trod was amazing. My wife is of Icelandic descent and has traced her direct lineage back to Erik the Red, so for her these aren't "ancestors" they're ANCESTORS. It's definitely worth doing, but getting there, aye, there's the rub. Vikings stood exactly here and saw exactly this (minus the modern bridge and plaque) 1000 years ago! Getting There
*Funny story about Leif. When he returned from L'Anse Aux Meadow to Greenland, he found that he had been removed from the village rolls and could no longer vote. When he complained, they checked their records and told him "We're sorry, we must have taken Leif off our census." | Recent Comments
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