[rescue] Digital server 7000r

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Dec 16 15:26:29 CST 2002


On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:43:34PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:


> "L'Anse aux Meadows is the only authenticated Viking site in North 
> America. It was established 1000 years ago by the explorer Leif 
> Eiriksson during his adventures in eastern North America - 500 years 
> before Columbus' exploits in the "New World". The site was rediscovered 
> by Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine in 1960. L'Anse aux Meadows is 
> now a National Historic Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first 
> cultural site in the world to receive this designation - a symbol of its 
> outstanding cultural and historical value."
> 
> From (http://www.biztravel.com/Articles/20000327.html)

My understanding is that technically Greenland is part of America, thus
it was his father Eric Thorvaldsson who discovered America.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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