The Norse explorers, who had supposedly smelted the bog ore, could not have obtained it.

The team suggested that the stone might have been made as a grave marker for some of the Norse explorers.

L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland's northern tip remains the only North American site where archeologists have confirmed the presence of Norse explorers.

It was presumably carved by Norse explorers.

From the testimony of the sagas, the Norse explorers probably made contact with the native Dorset culture of the region, people whom the sagas term skrælings.

Although brief hostilities ensued, the Norse explorers stayed another winter and left the following spring.

It honors Leif Ericson, the Norse explorer who brought the first Europeans known to have set foot in North America.

As with Norse accounts, the interactions between the peoples was still steeped in violence and revenge, thus hindering peaceful cohabitation and successful colonization by the Norse explorers.

Leif Erikson (c. 970 - c. 1020) was a Norse explorer.

Ericson, Leif, a Norse explorer.