Vinland

To the entire area of the gulf was given the title Vinland's Haf.

Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich

Leif Ericsson driven off course to Newfoundland (which he called Vinland).

2. The High Postclassical Period, 1000-1500 2001

Eirikson's German foster father Tyrkir is credited for finding grapes in "Vinland".

Sound Politics: The Saga of Global Warming 2006

That distinction belongs to the Norsemen, who sailed to North America early in the eleventh century and established a fleeting settlement in a place they called Vinland, whose location is still debated among historians but was most likely somewhere along the coast of Canada. 21 When the Icelander Thorfinn Karlsefni and his crew met the local Indians, they soon began trading, according to the saga of Eric the Red.

'Fur, Fortune, and Empire' 2010

The dispute if the site is Leifur Eiriksson's house in Vinland continues perpetually, but L'Anse aux Meadows would have been easy for Greenland mariners to find.

Archive 2005-08-28 Michael Evans 2005

The dispute if the site is Leifur Eiriksson's house in Vinland continues perpetually, but L'Anse aux Meadows would have been easy for Greenland mariners to find.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

The name Vinland was given to the newly-discovered country.

The Story of Newfoundland Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead 1901

Leif gave the name Vinland, spent the winter there, and in the spring went back to Greenland with a load of timber.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

This country he called Vinland because of the abundance of wild grapes.

Discoverers and Explorers 1879

"Well, Biarne," returned Olaf; "whether the dew was sweet to my father's tongue or to his spirit I cannot tell, but I remember that when he told us about the sweet dew, he said it was near to the island where he found it that the country he called Vinland lay.

The Norsemen in the West 1859