L'Anse aux Meadows and Red Bay

On Wednesday we visited L'Anse aux Meadows and Red Bay. In the 1960, the remains of a Norse village was discovered at the Meadows by a Norwegian explorer and archaeologist. It remains the only Norse site in North America and represents the farthest known extent of European exploration and settlement of the new world before the voyages of Christopher Columbus 500 years later. L'Anse aux Meadows was names a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1978. While taking a tour of a Norse site in the meadow, Denise and I walked thru an authentic village and met people dressed in traditional norse wear. We spoke to several of the people and one of them, a young girl told us about how metal was "mined" - out of the tundra bogs which contained a substance to make metal tools. It was sunny and warm!