USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago, centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, a study says. Scientists say a new dating technique analysing tree rings has provided evidence that Vikings occupied a site in Newfoundland, Canada, in 1021AD.

Detailed explanation-2: -These dramatic archaeological discoveries proved not only that the Vikings had indeed explored America some 500 years before Columbus’s arrival but also that they had traveled farther south to areas where grapes grew, to Vinland.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was a long voyage through the dicey water of the North Atlantic-three weeks if all went well-with land rarely in sight. Their boats were sturdy, made from planks called strakes held together with iron rivets, but a swift and steady vessel was no guarantee of safe passage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson, or Leif Ericson, also known as Leif the Lucky ( c. 970 – c. 1019 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tree-ring data helped scientists date a historic site in Canada’s province of Newfoundland. This reconstructed hut stands near an archaeological site in Newfoundland on Canada’s northeastcoast. The presence of Vikings at this site has been precisely dated to the year 1021.