Leifsbudir
Leifsbudir (Old Norse: Leifsbuðir) was a settlement mentioned in the Greenland Saga as founded by Leif Eriksson in 1000 or 1001 in Vinland.
The settlement was temporary and abandoned due to a lack of trade with natives. The Norse returned to Greenland.[1]
Leifsbudir is believed by some scholars to have been located at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, although this is widely disputed.[2][3] Dr. Stuart C. Brown of Memorial University has written "...Dr. lngstad's Procrustean attempt to demonstrate that L'Anse aux Meadows is Leifsbudir is wholly unconvincing..." [Newfoundland Quarterly, Fall, 1988, page 42.][4]
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[edit]- ↑ Number of Settlements in Vinland (Vinland Sagas)
- ↑ Birgitta Wallace (2003). "The Norse in Newfoundland: L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland". The New Early Modern Newfoundland. 19 (1). Retrieved January 27, 2016.
- ↑ Ronald J. Mason (2006). Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions. University of Alabama Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-8173-1533-7.
- ↑ Brown, Stuart (Fall 1988). "Review: "The Norse Discovery of America, Vol. 2: The Historical Background and the Evidence of the Norse Settlement Discovered in Newfoundland"" (PDF). The Newfoundland Quarterly (Fall, 1988): 40–41.