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THE NORSE IN NORTH AMERICA

1 The Norse made the first documented European voyages to North America, and there is evidence of these visits in the medieval sagas, a collection of stories that tell the history of the Icelandic people．The Icelandic sagas relate how the Norse captain Leif Eriksson and his brother Thorvald were blown off course during a voyage from Norway to Greenland and landed to the west of Greenland, and also describe Thorfinn Karlsefni’s attempt to colonize a place called Vinland．The sagas are a valuable source of details about these early voyages; however, historians have long expressed skepticism about their accuracy．
2 Norsemen ventured far from their homeland in Scandinavia to found settlements on the Greenland coast．One of them, the trader Bjarni Herjolfsson, was blown off course and subsequently discovered a wooded coastline, almost certainly that of Newfoundland． A1though Herjolfsson did not go ashore, this dis
A. The Norse were the first Europeans to discover North America, but little evidence remains of their settlement at Vinland．
B. The location of Vinland, the first European colony in North America, was unknown until the twenty—first century．
C. The Europeans chose Vinland as the site of their first colony because it had perfect conditions for growing grapes．
D. Eriksson’s Vinland was the first European colony in North America, but scholars still disagree over exactly where it was．