These are the recreated sod huts of Leif Erikson who landed at L'Anse aux Meadows around a thousand years ago, nearly 500 years before Columbus found the New World. Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stein found the evidence for this being a Viking settlement in the 1960s, and one of the primary pieces of evidence was the remains of an iron furnace where bog iron was processed. It's estimated that about 2 - 3 kg of iron was refined there which seems like a lot of effort for so little. The Vikings called this place Vinland after the grapes they found. They say grapes never grew in Newfoundland, but the bakeapples, and partridge berries, and blueberries grow wild everywhere there and would make a fine wine for the Vikings who had likely never seen grapes growing anywhere they had lived. The name L'Anse aux Meadows comes from the French where it was originally L'Anse aux Medeuse, or Jellyfish Cove, but meadows does seem to apply here too.
Camera Make: SONY
Camera Model: CYBERSHOT
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Copyright 2002, Mark Plummer