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History professor says the Vikings never came to Newfoundland

“Well, people came to Newfoundland, but I always use the word Norse,” said Janzen, a history professor at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, on Wednesday morning. 

Janzen knows it may be a hopeless cause, but he’d like to see more people in western Newfoundland trying to capitalize on historical tourism and to be a little more informed when visitors come.

“The visitors that come to Newfoundland often know a lot and if we keep calling these people who came to L’Anse aux Meadows Vikings, I think we’re revealing that we know less than we should.”

Later Wednesday evening Janzen spoke more of those first European visitors to Newfoundland in a presentation at the Corner Brook Museum and Archives titled “The Vikings Never Came to Newfoundland — Really!” 

Janzen said the talk was intended to try and make the distinction between who the Vikings were back then and who the Norse were...

Read entire article at The Western Star