Posts Tagged ‘L’anse aux Meadows’

The term “Viking” is somewhat irksome when used to describe the ‘Vinland’ settlement in  Newfoundland and Labrador. The image it conjects are mostly Hollywood fabrications, and even the fake helmets ascribe to a much earlier period in Norse history. The term “Viking” means “Raider” and while they certainly earned a frightful reputation for their devastating…