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Helge Ingstad, Norwegian lawyer, academic, and explorer (born 1899)

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Helge Ingstad

Norwegian explorer (1899–2001)

Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to…
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March 29

Day of the year

March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 277 days remain until the end of the year.
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