文兰 (纽芬兰)
古挪威人传奇史诗记载中出现的文兰,证明了维京人早在哥伦布航行五个世纪之前就已经到达北美洲,此一传统理论亦为考古学所支持。[1]1960年代,考古学家发现了格陵兰岛之外北美惟一一个古挪威人定居点,地点是纽芬兰岛北端,今天加拿大纽芬兰-拉布拉多省的兰塞奥兹牧草地。[2]这个发现决定性地证明了维京人在哥伦布之前就抵达了北美。最近的考古研究认为此遗址并不全然是古挪威人记录中的文兰,而是一个入口,通往一个更大的叫文兰的地方。[3][4]
参见
脚注
- ^ Jones, Gwyn (1986). The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-285160-8.
- ^ Ingstad, Helge; Ingstad, Anne Stine (2001). The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Checkmark Books. ISBN 0-8160-4716-2.
- ^ Is L'Anse aux Meadows Vinland?. L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada. Parks Canada. 2003 [2010-04-20]. (原始内容存档于2007-05-22).
- ^ Wallace, Birgitta; Gerhard E. Sollbach. Vinland-Rätsel gelöst (Vinland Riddle Solved). Damals: 47–48 (德语).
外部链接
- Parks Canada - L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada
- Vikings: The north Atlantic saga(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Searching for archeological evidence of Vikings in Labrador and Newfoundland (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) - from The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
- The Vinland Mystery (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) - a National Film Board of Canada documentary
- "Where is Vinland?", Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Skálholt Map - in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Full text of Eirik the Red's Saga[失效链接]