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Vikings settled in North America in 1021AD, study says
Vikings are seafaring people who sailed from Scandinavia, including Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, to the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, and North America from the late 8th to the 11th centuries. They raided coastal dwellings, pirated merchant ships, and traded goods and people. Some of them also settled in places like England, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and North America. This means that Vikings were the first people who reached North America before Christopher Columbus did in 1492. But the exact year in which they arrived there had not been clarified until recently. Now, a new study found that Vikings settled in the northern tip of Newfoundland, Canada as early as 1021CE. This was revealed from pieces of cut wood found in the site by using the radiocarbon dating technique. However, it does not prove that was the first year they were there. They or other Vikings might have been there even earlier, which needs to be proved by other pieces of evidence that may be discovered in the future. New history is being revealed by science nowadays.
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