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If confirmed, it would be only the second Viking settlement in Canada, the other being L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland

Why this retired archeologist is convinced New Brunswick is home to a lost Viking settlement



In the Saga of Erik the Red, a 13th century Icelandic story, intrepid explorer Thorfinn Karlsefn travels to a land called Hóp. There he finds grapes, plentiful supplies of salmon, barrier sandbars and natives who use animal-hide canoes. The Viking colony of Hop has long been lost to history, but Birgitta Wallace, a retired Parks Canada archaeologist, is convinced it was located in modern day New Brunswick. -- More...

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