The Vinland Map
- Date of account
- Publicly surfaced in the 1950s; authenticity disputed until modern testing
- Location
- Associated with Yale University and a European manuscript provenance
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Vinland Map is a purported medieval map depicting part of North America alongside a text known as the Tartar Relation. It became important in debates over whether Europeans had represented the Americas before Columbus, especially in relation to the Norse settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows. Ink analysis, provenance research and manuscript studies have strongly indicated that the map is a modern forgery, while the medieval Norse presence in North America is independently documented archaeologically. This lead matters because it separates genuine historical contact from a famous but contested documentary artifact.
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