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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 98 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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:king " spoke of an See also:island (or See also:country) in that ocean discovered by many, which is called See also:Vinland, because of the See also:wild grapes [See also:rites] that grow there, out of which a very See also:good See also:wine can be made . Moreover, *See also:hat See also:grain unsown grows there abundantly [fruges ibi non seminatas abundare] is not a fabulous See also:fancy, but is based on trustworthy accounts of the Danes." This passage offers important corroboration of the Icelandic accounts of the Vinland voyages, and is, furthermore, interesting " as the only undoubted reference to Vinland in a See also:medieval See also:book written beyond the limits of the Scandinavian See also:world " (Flake) .

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