“There is a site in Newfoundland that we already knew that Vikings had been there,” says Margot Kuitems, researcher from the University of Groningen (RUG). “Probably these explorers sailed west from Greenland in search of wood, a material that was very scarce in the harsh area.” In the 1960s, a group of archaeologists found a Viking settlement near the fishing village of L’Anse aux Meadows: a group of huts built the way the Normans did, with wooden, bronze and bone artifacts they knew Vikings used in everyday life. used.
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