The Discovery of America's First Foothold
“L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, c. 1000 CE. A Norse longship beached on a foggy shore as Vikings build sod houses. Foreground shows Leif Eriksson directing men splitting timber and stretching skin doors; midground reveals women starting a fire under a soapstone pot; the wind-bent grass and gray Atlantic stretch behind a settlement that will be abandoned in a generation.”
