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Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago

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Washington DC, USReuters Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first. But precisely when the Vikings journeyed to establish the L’Anse aux […]