This is all very interesting but the sagas weren't written down until at least 200 years after the events. Plus they are fanciful at best.
Still, Vikings were in North America way before Columbus and the site at L'Anse Aux Meadows confirms this. It's also thought that they might have been even further inland as they think The Meadows was a ship repair base.
No mention of the Vinland map though. This was a map that was discovered in 1957, three years before The Meadows was found. This map has been proved fake, then not, then fake, then not over the years and shows a site in America from the 11th century.
It also shows the site was used for generations rather than the sagas which say a few decades at most.
Still...it's enough for the Americans the get their knickers in a twist especially around the second week of October.
