High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic documents, The Saga of the Greenlanders, Grnlendinga Saga, and The Saga of Eric the Red, Eirks Saga Raua. The Vinland Sagas represent the most complete information we have about the Norse exploration of the Americas. They were not written until at least 200 years after the original voyages and their accounts of them are contradictory, but historians believe they contain substantial evidence of Viking exploration of North America. Their veracity was proved by the discovery and excavation of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. A Viking is one of the Norse (Scandinavian) explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century. These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland. This period of Viking expansion is known as the Viking Age, and forms a major part of the medieval history of Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland and the rest of Europe in general.