This lake is as big as South Carolina/USA or Austria! The biggest cities (metropolitan areas) in North America are: 17.

There were power struggles between the colonisers from England, France and Spain as well as revolutions of the local indigenous people which later led to the creation of the different independent states. "It grows in Oak Island and across the way in Halifax. A smaller settlement near the Eastern Settlement is sometimes considered the Middle Settlement. After all, when Columbus got there, and when the Vikings got there, there was always someone there to greet them. Bjarni decided to go after them and set out for Greenland. The two sides bartered with furs and gray squirrel skins for milk and red cloth, which the natives tied around their heads as a sort of headdress.

Perhaps one day more conclusive archaeological finds will be uncovered, proving that the Vikings pushed further into the continent. Spanish and French are spoken by many as second language in the USA. Agricultural produce such as grains (barley, wheat, sorghum) and vegetables such as corn, soybean as well as sugar beet, peanuts and tobacco. North America is also home to many endangered animals such as the American bison, the banana bat or the cougar. The Little Ice Age of this period would have made travel between Greenland and Europe, as well as farming, more difficult; although fishing and seal hunting provided a healthy diet, there was more prestige in cattle farming, and there was increased availability of farms in Scandinavian countries depopulated by famine and plague epidemics. In 985, while sailing from Iceland to Greenland with a migration fleet consisting of 400–700 settlers[9][22] and 25 other ships (14 of which completed the journey), a merchant named Bjarni Herjólfsson was blown off course, and after three days' sailing he sighted land west of the fleet. It is now time to turn our attention to the so-called Vinland Map and a remarkable husband and wife archaeological team.

Monuments claimed to be Norse include:[26], The nineteenth-century Harvard chemist Eben Norton Horsford connected the Charles River Basin to places described in the Norse sagas and elsewhere, notably Norumbega.

This is the largest of the Great Lakes in the USA. 2. “The Norse and Native Norse Americans”. In response, the indigenes attacked the Vikings with a flotilla of boats. 6. 14. 2000. W. B. Bartlett has worked across the globe in over thirty countries and has spent time in over seventy.