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29 Feb 2000 He set sail for land that was visible west of Iceland. Three years later, he returned to Iceland and convinced hundreds of others to join him in Unlike southern Greenland in the tenth century, North America was already Between 1100 and 1200 A.D., as the colder weather arrived, so did the Thules.
16 Aug 2019 Did you know Baffin Island was the first land the Vikings saw as they left Nearly 500 years before Columbus sailed from Spain, Nordic sagas (https://tigertranscript.com/6148/features/viking-adventures-in-north-america/).
