New Viking voyage to Newfoundland discovered

[Ed Anger]

My parents are continental porkchops dammit!

They are fine people. 

You however, are an eggplant.

[Viking]

Note, the other two lands the vikings found in addition to Vinland (and it does mean wine-land) were Markland (forest-land) and Helluland (stone-land)

Helluland makes sense for Baffin Island, but Markland could be anywhere in North America at the time.

Using our knowledge of Viking navigation. The path from Vestribyggd (modern Nuuk) would have been straight west to Baffin Island, then south down past Labrador all the way down to Newfoundland. They would have known they were on the same latitude as England once the reached Newfoundland - where the excavated settlment is located. They wouldn't have strayed out of sight of land and once they reach the tip of newfoundland sailing geography becomes complicated you don't know what is an island as opposed to the mainland and what is a fjord as opposed to a strait. Today Baffin Island is considered to be Helluland, Labrador to be Markland and Newfoundland to be Vinland. Note Vikings made wine from berries, not grapes.

[dps]

Note, the other two lands the vikings found in addition to Vinland (and it does mean wine-land) were Markland (forest-land) and Helluland (stone-land)

add Greenland and Iceland to that list and it shows just how original your people were

Calling that big island "Greenland" may not have been original, but it was a bit of creative advertising.

[PDH]

BTW, it doesn't stop there, virtually every single indigenous local name is a variant of "land of the people".

One of the funny things I saw over and over in Anthropology was the 1st or 2nd year student learn that every group's name for themselves is "The People" (more or less).  They imagine they have stumbled onto something momentous, instead they have learned about how groups see themselves (and the rest of people not in the group), not much more.

[HVC]

My parents are continental porkchops dammit!

They are fine people. 

You however, are an eggplant.

dammit, I keep getting demoted.

[alfred russel]

Note, the other two lands the vikings found in addition to Vinland (and it does mean wine-land) were Markland (forest-land) and Helluland (stone-land)

add Greenland and Iceland to that list and it shows just how original your people were

We are brief and descriptive. Hemingway got it from somewhere. But to go to national etymology

France - Land of the Free People
Germany - Land of the People
England - Land of the Angles
Russia - Red Haired Peoples Place
America - Amerigo Vespuccis Place
Australia - Country in the South

etc. We just got language right the first time round and we haven't had ours corrupted and bastardized (in your case by arabs).

I can't speak for the rest, but I don't think that is an accurate etymology of America...it was named after Amerigo Vespucci, but I don't think it mean that it was his place.

[HVC]

His place as in his map.