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c. 790 - c. 1100The Viking Age.
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c. 970 - c. 1030Approximate time-indication of the Vikings' expeditions to Vinland (Newfoundland, North America).
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980 - 1020Radiocarbon dates given for the remains of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows (Newfoundland, Canada).
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c. 1000Vikings first land in North America, in Newfoundland and other parts of eastern Canada.
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c. 1220 - c. 1280The Saga of the Greenlanders & Erik the Red's Saga, together known as the Vinland Sagas but written independently, are composed in Iceland.
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1961 - 1968Helge Ingstad discovers the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows (Newfoundland, Canada); subsequent excavations are carried out by the Ingstads until 1968.
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1973 - 1976Parks Canada leads further excavations at the Viking site of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada.