L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows is a French-English name which can be translated as the bay with the grasslands. How the village itself came to be named "L'Anse aux Meadows" is debated. One possibility is that "L'Anse aux Meadows" is a corruption of the French designation ', which means "Jellyfish Cove". The shift from ' to "Meadows" may have occurred because the landscape in the area tends to be open, with meadows. A more recent supposition is that it is derived from "L'Anse à la Médée", or "The Medea's Cove", the name it bears on an 1862 French naval chart. Whether "Medea" or "Medusa", it is possible that the name refers to a French naval vessel.