Vinland

American  

[vin-luhnd] / ˈvɪn lənd /

noun

1. a region in E North America variously identified as a place between Newfoundland and Virginia: visited and described by Norsemen about a.d.

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Vinland British  

/ ˈvɪnlənd, ˈvaɪnlənd /

noun

1. the stretch of the E coast of North America visited by Leif Ericson and other Vikings from about 1000 _ad

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Example Sentences

It seemed to be corroboration of the Kensington Runestone and of the Vinland Map that hit the headlines a few years later.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2023

One thousand years ago, according to Viking sagas, intrepid seafarers sailed west from Greenland to a coast they called Vinland.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 13, 2023

Scholars are not sure which Indigenous group they belonged to, but twentieth-century archaeological digs in Nova Scotia have verified much of the information found in the Icelandic sagas of Vinland.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

“The Vinland Map is just one in a long series of forgeries that are about demonstrating a medieval European presence on American soil,” he said.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021

The Norse sagas describe attacks on their Vinland camp by people termed Skraelings, evidently either Newfoundland Indians or Dorset Eskimos.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond