Here is the question :
WHERE IS THE ONLY CONFIRMED VIKING SITE IN NORTH AMERICA, OUTSIDE OF GREENLAND?
Here is the option for the question :
- L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
- Foster City, California
- Rossie, Iowa
- Victoria, British Columbia
The Answer:
And, the answer for the the question is :
Explanation:
[STC001662] For many years, experts disputed whether the Vikings ever made it to North America. The Icelandic sagas mentioned a Norse colony named “Vinland” that existed to the west of Iceland and Greenland and was portrayed as a vast land occupied by “skraelings,” although the sagas frequently mixed reality and fiction. A few purported “Viking rune stones” that arose in the 19th century and some of which turned out to be fakes compounded the matter. However, in the 1960s, the archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad and her husband, the explorer Helge Ingstad, discovered the ruins of a Viking camp in L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, which was built around 1000 C.E. The two discovered incontrovertible proof of Norse civilization, including turf constructions in the style of Iceland, a bronze cloak button, and iron rivets similar to those used on boats. The site may have been inhabited during the 10th and 12th centuries, albeit probably not constantly, according to more recent archeological investigations. The Norse explorers probably frequented the location on their quest for resources and arable land.