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Nearly 500 years before Columbus sailed, Viking explorer Leif Erikson reached North America. Around 1021 AD, Norse settlers built a base camp they named Vinland at what is now LAnse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, used for boat repairs and further exploration. For many centuries, the tale lived on in Icelandic Sagas as mere legend until Norwegian explorers Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad uncovered remains of timber-framed turf buildings, a forge, and daily life artifacts in 1960, proving the Norse had

In the late 9th century, Viking ships prowled the coasts of Frankia, plundering monasteries and burning towns. Among their leaders was Rollo, a towering Norse chieftain reputed to be so large no horse could bear him for long. His real name may have been Hrólfr, but the Franks called him Rollo. In 911, after years of brutal raids up the Seine, Rollo besieged Paris and Chartres. King Charles the Simple, desperate for peace, offered him a radical deal: land in exchange for loyalty. Rollo accepted,