Part 19 of our road trip across Northern Quebec and Eastern Canada. Now on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, we visited L’Anse aux Meadows, the 1000 year old Viking encampment and site of the first European contact with North America. Photos at the end. There are 3 other videos in this series – be sure to check them out as well.
VIDEO: GGC – 22a – Viking Encampment in Canada – L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Part 19 of our road trip across Northern Quebec and Eastern Canada. Now on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, we visited L’Anse aux Meadows, the 1000 year old Viking encampment and site of the first European contact with North America. Photos at the end. There are 3 other videos in this series – be sure to check them out as well.
Another interesting video. Thanks you two.
I want to go there so bad
That looks like an awesome trip i have to put on my 'to visit someday' list!… just watched the NOVA special about some recent finds at point rosee to the south of there.
thanks for the video of newfoundland, very interesting
reminds me of back home in Scotland. cold wet and windy but beautiful
It's good of you to make and post this video but it's unfortunate that the government of Canada is supporting an attempt to rewrite history with this tourist trap. 1:54 – this image looks like someone bull dozed a patch of land then planted grass. 1:35 – You mention archeological evidence but I don't see any evidence in this video. An actual Viking anvil would be evidence but a reconstruction and re-enactors, while entertaining is not evidence. Regarding claims by Erik the Red or Lief Erikson these men were murderers and liars who gave the name "Greenland" to a land covered in ice. I hope you don't delete this comment, because I don't think there's anything wrong with you visiting this place and making a video but what I object to is the Canadian government and UNESCO's attempt to rewrite history so they can promote tourism in a remote part of the world. The reason we have a history is so we can learn from it but, if our history becomes nothing but a pack of lies, then we are doomed to be a nation of fools.
! L'Anse aux Meadows es solo un gran mito y ahora cuentate una de vaqueros..!
I love to see so many people loving the landscape and history of my province
The water color is also caused by the peat. Despite the color, it's pretty good quality and most bacteria don't like it.
I started watching and I was like "Hey that's the maple syrup guy"
Wow. This place looks amazing. I would love to see it one day!!
Hi, I am preparing my new campervan in a Nissan NV200 and planning a 2-3 weeks in Newfoundland next July. I am getting lots of information from your videos. So thank you! So far I did not understood at what period of the year your where there. If you could let me now I would appreciate. Although I did not see all your videos, yet, I red from some posts that you have bought a house and setled down. That is also a nice project. Continu with beautiful life projects.
I Went There For My School Trip In Grade 6
One day I'll come check it out. Amazing.
This settlement conclusively and archaeologically proves 100% that Vikings established themselves in Canada over 500 years before "Columbus" ships ran into Peurto Rico…..! Time to erase the Columbus name from all the history books, replacing it with "Vikings" and properly credit the Norse explorers for their being the FIRST to "discover" the Americas……!
Couldn't understand a word from that man by the fire 😀
just so everyone knows, it not always cold here like some may think. yesterday was more than 20 C
So, you found it was cold during the tourist season? Must be much colder in the winter when there's snow on the ground 🙂 I remember when I was a kid about 4 hours drive south of there, our hair would freeze to our hats in the winter 🙂
Thanks they were great videos
I want to go there so bad!! I live in upstate NY. It would only take 35 hours of beautiful driving…hmmmmm
Damn, it's weird hearing the guide pronounce all those names of the vikings in an odd way. Leifur "The lucky" Eiríksson, son of Eric the Red (Eiríkur rauði) is related to me. If I go 29 generations back you find Leifur's great-grandparents. Also, Þorfinnur "Karlsefni" Þórðarson, the dude that bore the first white child on North-American soil, is my direct ancestor 26 generations back. I just found out by using Islendingabok, the book of Icelanders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dslendingab%C3%B3k_(genealogical_database)
Cool video and I'm sure the tour guide is a nice man but he clearly has some kind've bias as it pertains to Europeans and America's! Supposedly he was the first "White" child born on American soil. "Ya know how they like to tell tales" He needs to just state the facts and let the Visitors make up their own minds. This is the bias,negative attitude towards pre-Columbus exploration into the America's. Even the Indians have oral history that expresses that Whites were already on the land first! Don't reply negatively just go to Robert Sepher's YouTube channel and watch his latest video. He also produces on Atlantean Gardens. Open your minds to the truth! We've been lied to and mislead!
sooooooooo, this must be in July (parkas, windy, where's my hat???) all over months are WORSE.
so where are the Icelandic sheep, chickens, and horses???
So Columbus was not the first…
'Are you cold?' Haha, of course she was clad in cotton and plastic. Get the lady some pure wool!
I grew up the and know where there's more. I can show
Imagine if more Vikings would have made it over instead of looting Europe. History would have been much different
The stories were very hard to hear because of the high winds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt1lgFV7b8Y&t=4s