Leifsbudir

Leifsbudir is believed by some scholars to have been located at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland

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.

Leifsbudir is believed by some scholars to have been located at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, although this is widely disputed. 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.]

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References

  1. ↑ Number of Settlements in Vinland (Vinland Sagas)
  2. ↑ Birgitta Wallace (2003). "The Norse in Newfoundland: L'Anse aux Meadows and Vinland". The New Early Modern Newfoundland. 19 (1). Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.