Helge Ingstad

Ingstad in his trapper days in the late 1920s (photo taken in 1932 from his book about Canada ''The Land of Feast and Famine'', 1933) Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.

Helge Ingstad died at Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo at the age of 101. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Ingstad, Helge, 1899-2001
    Published 1940
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    by Ingstad, Helge, 1899-2001
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    by Ingstad, Helge, 1899-2001
    Published 1992
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    by Ingstad, Anne Stine, 1918-1997
    Published 1985
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