Vinland

[vin-luh nd]

noun

a region in E North America variously identified as a place between Newfoundland and Virginia: visited and described by Norsemen about a.d.

Also Vineland.

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Historical Examples of vinland

We do not learn that any of them ever repeated Eric's experiment of searching for Vinland.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2)
John Fiske.
But this is not quite the only reference that Ari makes to Vinland.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2)
John Fiske.
The country to which the merchant vessels sailed was Vinland.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887
Various
In the autumn they returned to Vinland, where they passed another winter.
Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology
John D. Baldwin
Alfred does not even allude to Iceland, Greenland, or Vinland.
A Book of Discovery
Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge

British Dictionary definitions for vinland

Vinland

Vineland (ˈvaɪnlənd)

noun

the stretch of the E coast of North America visited by Leif Ericson and other Vikings from about 1000 ad

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