“Far, far to the west, across the sea, there’s a land called Vinland. It has lush green plains and trees bearing countless fruit. It’s warm and fertile. It’s a faraway land without slave traders and without war.”

The Ingstads were remarkable, brilliant people. I wish I could have spent a day with them.

Wow. One of the great mysteries of humanity was solved by the sagas written so long ago, coupled with a researcher's curiosity

This is video is a good piece of history, and the archaeologists here proved conclusively that the Vikings settled at least in Newfoundland. One curious aspect is that these particular archaeologists considered that they were better able to find the site by treating the word Vinland as referring to meadows rather than to grapes/wine, which did not grow at that site. However, pointing to a writing from the same era as the Viking settlement, the Aeon article notes that Adam of Bremen wrote: "In this great ocean, many have found still another island, which is called Vinland, since there grow wild grapes." - Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (c1070)" It would be especially helpful if researchers on Vinland listed the directions to VInland in the Sagas and then drew their own fresh charts of the coordinates in the Sagas- Eric the Red's Saga and the Greenlanders' Saga. I tried to do this myself, and will give my two threads in the next Reply.

I wasn't so sure about this when it started but then fascinated--these are the people who found the L'Anse Aux Meadows site! It was neat to hear about it from them and to see footage from their time there.

Now they're saying that the wine grapes of Vinland may have been gooseberries. Gooseberry wine is better than nothing. From USA, Cheers to the Ingstads of Norway for setting history straight in 1968. The Ingstads have changed North American history.

Read Ingstad's books. ...great read. One of my favorite authors.

People calling this into question: look at the Maine penny. Why would viking currency be in North America if they never made it there. Then there's the viking settlement discovered. Derp Derp.

Great documentary, the works of this couple of explorers and archaeologists are remarkable !

What an amazing thing to find as an archaeologist , brilliant

The Norse discovered America 500 years before Columbus!

Wait wait wait isn’t this basically major Vinland saga spoilers

There is still so much to find! The sagas hint at several places. Perhaps further south but perhaps not so far at all!

Great video! I find the history of viking exploration very interesting.

The wild grapes they were talking about were probably blueberries ,Newfoundland is covered in them

I’m here to understand the lore of Vinland saga

the word Vin is a old nordic word for meadow! hence meadow land!

I declare White bay Newfoundland in particular Sop's Arm... Vinland. Grapes and all. Check it out.

explain the runes in MN and other places in America, just move down the ST Lawrence, they were traders, Ivory copper furs fish and such

I am learning this

Vinland is also known as norumbega by the natives. I myself am mikmaq and we integrated with the templar vikings in 900-1100s. The mikmaq hold some of the most templar bloodlines in the world. As we integrated with them to the extent of being indistinguishable from each other.

to much is made of the word grape. newfie is covered with wild berries. tons of blue berries as blue as grapes. these north men never saw a grape in there lives. green land was not green and grapes weren't grapes. thank yew gare

There's a great chapter in "A Burglar's Guide to the City" by Geoff Manaugh all about navigating LA streets by police helicopter. Some parts of LA you can decode the address into grid coordinates and know exactly where it is, but some parts are maddeningly random.

There is an anime about it

Erik Raude named the land he settled Greenland to make it appealing for other settlers. Would it not be logical that the same idea was used to entice others to go to the new discovery by calling it Vinland? Is it not odd that nothing else was discovered further south where most of the coast is settled today? Because LAM was Vinland.

VINE LAND NFLD, Newfoundland has the most Vine grown edible berries anywhere in North America

Hi would it be possible for me to have permission to sample some of Dr. Ingstads dialogue in this video for my bands new music release? Thanks I await to hear a reply.

This is really interesting. Kinda stinks that the natives and the Vikings couldn't come to an understanding, but per usual, cultural religious and ritual differences breed extreme distrust

Lief Ericson was in South western Nova Scotia , that is proven to be true , if he sailed to Boston from there he might have found grapes , grapes are grown in Nova Scotia also , but I dont believe they are native to the region .We have a thriveing wine inddusty in Nova Sotia . So it IS warm enough to grow grapes there . There is an ocean current that travels fron Cape Beton Nova Scotia all the way to Boston , it is believed that Lief Ericson followed this current . Nova Scotia may have been the legendary Vinland .

who is here because of vinland saga anime

Does anyone know what happened to the Norsement settlement here then? I did a quick search but nothing much comes up

But... they surely must have known that there is another land next to Greenland by measuring the tide! The high tide next to an ocean is much higher than the high tide on the shore which is two days trip across the sea. Or not?

And 34 years later, we still don't know where the place of the wild grapes is.

Something to consider: why is it that America was "discovered" but England was not? They were both encroached in same fashion...arrived uninvited, that is.

Why does watching this remind me of Bjork and Sigur Ros

the Island of Martha's Vineyard...is Vinland.

No spoiler tag?

Vinland saga brought me here

22:22 - Ha! I ‘piggy-back’ the experts that come to my archaeological site in exactly the same way. 🙂

well I'm a vinlander instead of a newfie great

Anyone here from Vinland Saga?

Why would they follow the coast of Labrador the cross the straight to Newfoundland and not continue into Quebec lower north shore

Like most of these discoveries, it somewhat overlooks the point that North America wasn't lost at all, the native Americans who had been there for 15,000+ years knew all about it.

The Vikings were brutal. The Inuits must have been incredible warriors to have kicked them out!

I thought Martha's Vineyard was Vinland.

Виндланд и стория викингов 👍🇷🇺

Vinland of west is MINNESOTA. New discovery..

Me searching for vinland saga hehe

Does anyone watch vikings?this couple's surname is ingstad and so is lagertha's when she first comes to ragnar's village.she poses as a "earl ingstad"???

Alguém é Brasileiro

Pre-Dorset and Saqqaq cultures

Vinland more than likely was any where between Maine and Massachusetts

Some say the Romans did the same type of voyages a thousand years earlier, but no baths or villas found yet !

Thorfinn will solve the mystery!

hold up this isnt the anime

me 2 :(

E=MC²

I met Eric the Red...

My family DNA results are more than half Scandinavian out from England and Ireland we have Native American in there also. I have many matches in Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It really makes me wonder if I can do DNA tribal match for Native Americans to see if it is for this region they are discussing.

plant some trees !

H E T A L I A Canada is Vinland

YOOOO LEIF IS REAL

One has to consider the circumstances on which this site was allegedly discovered. Remember Piltdown man? Remember the Kensington Rune Stone? I should add that nails and pins cannot be radio carbon dated.

They could have used actual Norse Music with the soundtrack.

Hi Helen, There was allegedly a Norse settlement found L'Anse Aux Meadows in Labrador on the East Coast of Canada. This was the only site which which may have some archaeological evidence. This was, as I recall, based on some square nails found at a dig site on the coast. While the site's location on the coast is possible, I believe it remains highly suspect. First, discoverers of the site were two Norwegian archaeologist/treasure hunters. Secondly, they were searching for proof of Norse settlements. Thirdly, the area for their treasure hunt consisted of three thousand miles of coast line just on the East coast of North America. Fourthly, the Viking sagas which describe the trip to Vinland occurred roughly a thousand years ago, it was a tiny encampment, and only lasted for a season or two. Thus, imagine the impossibly good luck of looking for a thousand year old needle in a three thousand mile haystack. On top of this, one must add to that all of the other provably fraudulent evidence such as the Kensington Rune stone which always seems to be found be Norwegians. What do I think? I think it's all made-up Norwegian bullshit. Don't get me wrong; I love Norwegians. They are beautiful people. However, when it comes to Pre-Columbian American history, many, many Norwegians seem to have a quirky, pathologic need to re-write history....Just my opinion.

The Norse were likely settled anywhere anywhere they had access to glacial run-off, where they originated. I would argue that ‘Vine’ means stream, or sweet water. Water with zero dissolved solids and no bacterial growth is a great contributor to health. It was also part of Norse religion to drink only sweet water, glacial run-off and to establish their communities around this resource. ‘Vinland’ was a land of fresh water streams, as is apparent from the locales chosen by Viking explorers, immediately south of Greenland. The whole thing about grapes is Americo-centric nonsense applied to myth. They were looking for glacial run-off to establish their colonies, failing that, would gladly seek out fast running fresh water, such as you would find in L’Anse-Aux-Meadows.

north America was already discovered. peoples were here...sorry

They explored and discovered North America first, get over it