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See also:VINLAND (Old Norse, Vinland, i.e. See also:Vineland or Wineland)
, some region on the eastern See also:coast of -See also:North See also:America, visited and named by the Norsemen in the beginning of the 1th See also:century
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The word first appeared in See also:print in See also:Adam of See also:Bremen's Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis, an appendix to his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, published by Lindenbrog in 1595
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In pursuit of See also:historical study, Adam visited the Danish See also:court during the reign of the well-informed monarch Svend Estridsson (1047-1076), and writes that the See also: |
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