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Vinland Map authenticity revived by new analysis
Yale University Press releases a new edition arguing the Vinland Map is genuine and supports Norse discovery of North America before Columbus. Scholars debate its age with tests suggesting post 1917 pigments, while supporters claim the map’s historic value and possible links to Leif Eriksson and Bjarni Herjolfsson.
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New Haven
Iceland
Greenland
Newfoundland
New World
Wilcomb B. Washburn
Smithsonian Institution
Program In American Studies
Vinland
Yale Press
Walter C. McCrone
Chicago
Yale
McCrone
Yale University Press
John Ryden
University of California At Davis
George D. Painter
Christopher Columbus
America
Yale University