文蘭 (紐芬蘭)
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古挪威人傳奇史詩記載中出現的文蘭,證明了維京人早在哥倫布航行五個世紀之前就已經到達北美洲,此一傳統理論亦為考古學所支持。[1]1960年代,考古學家發現了格陵蘭島之外北美惟一一個古挪威人定居點,地點是紐芬蘭島北端,今天加拿大紐芬蘭-拉布拉多省的蘭塞奧茲牧草地。[2]這個發現決定性地證明了維京人在哥倫布之前就抵達了北美。最近的考古研究認為此遺址並不全然是古挪威人記錄中的文蘭,而是一個入口,通往一個更大的叫文蘭的地方。[3][4]
參見
编辑腳注
编辑- ^ Jones, Gwyn (1986). The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-285160-8.
- ^ Ingstad, Helge; Ingstad, Anne Stine (2001). The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Checkmark Books. ISBN 0-8160-4716-2.
- ^ Is L'Anse aux Meadows Vinland?. L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada. Parks Canada. 2003 [2010-04-20]. (原始内容存档于2007-05-22).
- ^ Wallace, Birgitta; Gerhard E. Sollbach. Vinland-Rätsel gelöst (Vinland Riddle Solved). Damals: 47–48 (德语).
外部連結
编辑- Parks Canada - L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada
- Vikings: The north Atlantic saga(页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆); Searching for archeological evidence of Vikings in Labrador and Newfoundland (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) - from The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
- The Vinland Mystery (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) - a National Film Board of Canada documentary
- "Where is Vinland?", Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Skálholt Map - in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Full text of Eirik the Red's Saga[失效連結]