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New findings that have determined a specific year for the presence of Vikings in L’Anse aux Meadows align with the Vinland Sagas. Read more in this post from the Iceland Monitor! https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2021/10/23/new_findings_correspond_with_conclusions_drawn_from/  

Check out the new book by Vinland Discovery Group’s Kelly Wionzek, with a chapter on Sop’s Arm. One thousand years ago the Norse people, commonly referred to as the Vikings, turned their eyes to the west to a country they called Vinland. Four known expeditions were made for the purposes of exploration, colonization and resource…

This portion of article points to Sop’s Arm. Certainly food for thought!” After driving many times back and forth along the east coast of Newfoundland Jónas Kristjánsson, scrutinizing a map of Newfoundland, was struck by the idea that Straumfjord would indeed be a bay looking very small on the map, called Sop’s Arm, lying west…