extending the architectural timeline of the Vikings in America.

 

This screenshot from the Discovery Channel's America's Lost Vikings takes foundation layouts from houses across three different centuries and overlays them on top of the three house foundations found in Leif Erikson's Camp/L'Anse aux Meadows. The similarities imply that the site was possibly used for centuries, as opposed to the few decades previously thought. The lack of physical artifacts of a long-settled site runs contrary to this, though given the low population of this colony compared to Greenland would render less accompanying materials to be found.

And maybe they just came seasonally or for only a couple years at a time, like a set of winter cabins, perhaps using them as a staging point for further expeditions West to the mainland. While that's all suppositional based wholly on architectural parallels, hopefully that observation opens more doors toward investigations into a potentially larger Norse America.

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Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since then he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay. If you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.