Archeologists find home of Viking who visited New World

Sunday, September 29, 2002

LOS ANGELES -- Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a Viking longhouse that many believe was the home of Snorri Thorfinnsson, thought to be the first European born in the New World.

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