A re-created building at L'Anse aux Meadows
The archaeology geek in me has always wanted to visit L’Anse aux Meadows, a national historic site in northern Newfoundland. I got to check this one off my bucket list on this trip.
L’Anse aux Meadows contains the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement (settled by Eric the Red) - the oldest known European settlement in North America. Although the current buildings are recreations of what archaeologists found, they are a very close replication of what was there all those years ago.
As serendipity would have it, our guide for the our of L’Anse aux Meadows was the great granddaughter of the man who discovered the remains of the Viking settlement in his field.
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| Costumed Viking interpreters |
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| Weaving loom - more geek-out for me!!! |
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| Sleeping quarters |
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| Statue of Eric the Red - the first European in North America |
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