Helge Ingstad

Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.

30 December 1899

Born on the same birth day (30 December): Charles Yorke • Clive Bunker • Dave England • Del Shannon • Gianni Zuiverloon • Graham Vick • Jan Kubíček • Janko Prunk • Jim Marshall (defensive end) • Lewis Shiner • Nick Symmonds • Randall Azofeifa

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