Voyages North

North Ludlow Beamish. The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the Tenth Century, with Notices of the Early Settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere. London, 1841.

Archaeological investigations do not support the theory that there was ever a Norse settlement in North America on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket, despite what this map represents. Several works in the nineteenth century suggested New England as an American home for these explorers. Archaeologists have proven, however, that a Norse settlement definitely existed at l’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland a millennium ago.