Helge Ingstad

Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in LAnse aux Meadows in the Province of Newfoundland in Canada. With that they were the first to prove conclusively that the Greenlandic Norsemen had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Viking settlement in the 1415th century could be explained by their emigration to North America.

Helge Ingstad was born to Olav Ingstad and Olga Marie Qvam in Merker, NordTrndelag. His father was municipal engineer in Troms and held the title of factory supervisor. Helge and his family moved to Bergen in 1915 where he attended the Bergen Katedralskole , and after graduating cand. jur. in 1922 he took up a practice of lawyer in Levanger.

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