Norse explorers
Medieval Atlantic voyagers
Norse explorers were Scandinavian seafarers of the medieval period who ventured across the North Atlantic and beyond.
They established settlements in Iceland, Greenland, and briefly North America around 1000 CE—centuries before Columbus.
The term often appears in discussions of Viking-age expansion: Norse explorers reached Newfoundland long before other Europeans.
- knarrViking merchant ship
- longshipSlender Norse rowing vessel
- VinlandNorse term for America
- sunstoneReflective inclusion-bearing feldspar
- Viking settlementsCommunities founded by Scandinavians
Leif Erikson · Harald Hardrada · Greenland · Newfoundland · Iceland · L'Anse aux Meadows · Faroe Islands · sagas · runestone · Shetland Islands · Erik the Red · trading posts · fur trade · whale bone · ship burials · sea voyage · open sea · North Atlantic
Norse explorersindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
Norse explorersChristopher Columbus
Navigator who found the Americas
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