What country did the Vikings land on?

Question

What country did they land on? They were the first to land on an American country, what country was it?

And I know that there were NO countries back then. I just want to know what land they arrived on. Links to your answer would also be help please.

Answer 1

The Vikings first landed at Lans aux meadows on the Northern penisula of Newfoundland Canada



Leif Eriksson, known from Icelandic sagas as a descendant from a line of Norwegian Viking chieftains, who had established the first European settlement in Greenland in about 985, was most likely the first European discoverer of America in about 1000.[4] His initial area of settlement is likely to be L'Anse aux Meadows located in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows

Answer 2

What countries did the Vikings land on?

As you already know, the places where the Vikings landed over 1,000 years ago were not the countries as we recognize them today. Yes, the Vikings landed in Newfoundland, Canada and Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, and many other places throughout Western and Eastern Europe.

Answer 3

From everything that I have read, the Viking peoples of Norway, Sweden and Denmark spread out all over Europe, Asia and into North America briefly. They were raiders, then traders and settlers. They landed on England, Ireland, France, Germany, Iceland, Greenland, Nova Scotia, Russia and into Asia Minor. Their influence helped shape medieval Europe and its dealings with Africa and Asia. This occurred primarily after the fall of Rome and into the Crusades. The coming of Christianity to the Viking peoples was pretty much the end of the Vikings and the emergence of the rising Christian realms, like France, Germany and England.

Answer 4

Greenland. They landed at what is now Greenland and established settlements there that remained for several generations, but gradually they gave up and returned to their homeland. They may have made trips farther down the coast of North America and may have even explored the St. Lawrence river on into the Great Lakes, but there is no record of them landing anywhere in what is now the United States.

Answer 5

The earth was quite a bit warmer in the viking times. They landed in Greenland and settled there for generations, untill the weather eventually cooled off again. The vikings didn't adapt to the way of life of the Inuit(hunting seals for their meat and pelts). The live-stock eventually died from the cold and the very last of the vikings in Greenland died from starvation. During their peak, they had travelled from Greenland to Iceland and Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. They then made it to Labrador(the big island off mainland Newfoundland) and it is believed they made it as far south as New England.

Answer 6

banhjaxed has the right answer according to the archaeological evidence. There are some clues from the sagas that provide evidence of expeditions to the south, possibly as far south as the Hudson valley.

The settlement didn't last long, one thing the Norse didn't manage successfully seems to be tolerance of indigenous people. The settlements in West Greenland might have survived the change in climate of the 14-19th centuries in the North Atlantic had they learned to adopt the survival techniques of the Inuit, but the sagas refer to them as Skralings, just as the sagas refer to the indigenous people of North America that they met.

Answer 7

The period from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 is commonly called the Viking Age in Scandinavian History. The Normans, however, were descended from Norwegians (in Norwegian they are still to date referred to as jeg er en Normann), Orkney, Hiberno-Norse, and Danelaw Vikings who were given feudal overlordship of areas of northern France — the Duchy of Normandy — in the 8th century. In that respect, the Vikings continued to have an influence in northern Europe. Likewise, King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England who was killed during the Norman invasion in 1066, was descended from Danish Vikings. Many of the medieval kings of Norway and Denmark were married to English and Scottish royalty and Viking forces were often a factor in dynastic disputes pre-1066.

I hope it helps!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

greenland canada usa. first proven europeans to land there. the irish monk was reputed to have landed on n am in the 9th century. named brendan or brennan something along those lines. leif erricson landed in vineland sometime around 988ad.
check out this site. includes the text of the viking voyages to n am.
http://www.historicaldocuments.com/VoyagestoVinland.htm

Answer 10

Newfoundland