[SEMCO] The Norse Discovery of America

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                 FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
August 14, 2018                                                                       Teresa Izzo
                                                                       508-896-3867 ext. 137
                                                           tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging into the Past
“The Norse Discovery of America”


BREWSTER, MA — Digging into the Past at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents The Norse Discovery of America with independent researcher, Greg M. Lott Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 1pm.

Icelandic sagas describe the colonization of Greenland by Erik the Red in 985 and the subsequent discovery of land further west by his second son, Norse explorer Leif Eriksson. Born in the 10th century, Eriksson is considered by many to be the first European to reach North America, centuries ahead of Christopher Columbus. However, the details of his voyage are a matter of historical debate, with one version claiming his landing accidental and another that he had sailed there intentionally after learning of the region from earlier explorers. Leif would name this land “Vinland the Good”. In the early 1960s, the discovery of the ruins of a Viking settlement in Newfoundland lent further weight to accounts of Eriksson’s voyage, and in 1964 the United States Congress authorized the president to proclaim each October 9th as Leif Eriksson Day.

Join independent researcher Gregory M. Lott as he revisits the work done by historian Frederick J. Pohl on Cape Cod and Norwegian explorer and author Helge Ingstad with his archaeologist wife Anne Stine Ingstad in Newfoundland. Their extensive efforts demonstrate how Europeans visited North America nearly 500 years prior to Columbus.

Free with Museum Admission

For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator/Publicist
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main Street/Route 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x 137
508-896-8844 -fax

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