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Conceptual illustration of a bark-edged wood section with fine annual growth rings on a stone table beside a slender sampling tool, with turf-roofed Norse-style buildings and a misty coast behind it; not a photograph of an excavated specimen.

How Do We Know Vikings Cut Wood in America in 1021?

 cacophony  10/30/2026

A radiocarbon spike and preserved tree edges date Norse woodcutting in Newfoundland to 1021, without establishing the first arrival.

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