We drove north from St Barbe on Hwy 430 up to L'Anse aux Meadows at the tip of the Northern Penninsula , Historic site of first Viking Settlement in North America about 1000 AD. These were the first Europeans to land in North America. and was the first place that ore was smelted to produce iron, used to make nails to repair their boats (in total produced about 3 kgs of useable iron making about 100 nails !!) There were several sod houses here with daily activities going on - blacksmithing, weaving, spinning, etc.
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