Helge Ingstad

The settlements of Vinland mentioned in the Eric saga and the Greenlanders saga Leifsbudir (Leif Ericson) and Hóp (Norse Greenlanders) have both been identified as the L'Anse aux Meadows site. She had read his books from Canada and Greenland with great admiration and got a crush on the explorer; Helge Ingstad wrote to him and after some time of correspondence and dating they were engaged and married. This is an extremely valuable contribution to the preservation of the Nunamiut culture because it turned out that much of what he had gathered in the mid-20th century was now lost locally and was only preserved in his recordings.

After mapping some Norse settlements Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine an archaeologist in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the Province of Newfoundland in Canada. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Viking settlement in the 14/15th century could be explained by their emigration to North America. With that they were the first to prove conclusively that the Greenlandic Norsemen had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot.