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Scientists use new method to pinpoint age of Viking village in Newfoundland — it’s AD 1021, in the pontificate of Benedict VIII, and 471 years before Columbus …

Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first.

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