On a summer day around the year 1000, a substantial Viking expedition from Greenland landed on the shores of what is now L'Anse aux Meadows- a community located at the tip of the Great norther Peninsula in western Newfoundland. Under the leadership pf Leif Eiriksson, the group between 70-90 people established an encampment that served as the base for exploring south throughout the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Although it was a rainy day I really enjoyed seeing this site which is now a National Historic Site of Canada. In the following photos you will see the mounds which are remnants of of eight 11Th century Norse building. The recreation of the sod houses gives you an idea of what the buildings of the Vikings were like.
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