L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland 7-19-10

We spent a foggy, misty morning touring L'Anse aux Meadows, at the tip-top of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula ... where the Vikings walked before us, around a thousand years ago. We camped the night before not far from the Meadows and were entertained at bedtime by an unusual and LOUD thunderstorm: Vikings, indeed - Thor, the Norse God of Thunder come alive! 

L’Anse aux Meadows is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Nat’l Historic site of Canada. It's quite an amazing place to visit.  Google L'Anse aux Meadows for lots more historical information. 

 

 

L'Anse aux Meadows archaeological site contains the excavated remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement.  The excavated remains of timber-framed peat-turf buildings are identical to those found in Norse Greenland and Iceland at the same period, thus providing unique evidence of the earliest known European presence in North America.

After touring the site, we followed the 2.4 km soggy hiking path that took us along the coast and around peat bogs and thoroughly chilled us.  If you go, try to pick a clear day to visit!