I came into the world at the right time.
Helge Ingstad Quotes
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.
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| Birth: | 30th December, 1899 |
| Death: | 29th March, 2001 |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Profession: | Explorer, Lawyer |
About
Helge Marcus Ingstad was born in Meråker, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. He was a Norwegian explorer and lawyer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the Province of Newfoundland in Canada. With that they were the first to prove conclusively that the Greenlandic Norsemen had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He was originally a lawyer by profession, but, ever an outdoorsman, he sold his successful law practice in Levanger and went to Canada's Northwest Territories as a trapper in 1926. He was the governor of Erik the Red's Land in 1932–33, when Norway annexed that eastern part of Greenland. He wrote several books include: Land of feast and famine, Vikings in the West, The Apache Indians, and Nunamiut: Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos.
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