Vinland

Vinland is an area Leif Erikson settled in the Vinland Sagas. The vines the name refers to could also have been blackcurrant. Even today, blackcurrant is called Vinbär ("wine-berry") in Swedish. The earliest known reference outside the Sagas is from Adam of Bremen (1076) in Gesta Hammaburgensis: "Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes. Nam et fruges ibi non seminatas habundare, non fabulosa opinione, sed certa comperimus relatione Danorum." This can be translated as: "In addition [the king of the Danes] reports on one of many islands in the ocean, which is called Winland, because vines grow there wild, which produce wine. That there are fruit in abundance which have non been [planted], we have not known from an incredible rumour, but from the report of the Danes." 

 References 
 Adam von Bremen (1076?): „Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum“ (Latin) 

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