Vinland

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Pedantically, Vinland is somewhere the Vikings said that they'd landed, beyond Greenland, where it was warm enough for vines to grow (hence the name -- unless we are talking 'Vin the Viking').

Generally nowadays reckoned to be a small area on the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Archaeologists have found traces of a single Norse settlement, in a typical Viking pattern, as opposed to the settlement pattern of the Native Americans. There is evidence that the settlement was abandoned after conflict with the local natives, the Beothuk.