The Viking Discovery of America is a well-known established academic fact since the discovery between 1960 and 1968 of Viking artefacts at L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland, dating back to approximately 1,000 years ago.
The alternative historians still continue to bang their drums and mistakenly claim how “The official academic view [is] that Columbus was the first European to reach the New World”.
L'Anse Aux Meadows does not seem to have been mentioned by Niven Sinclair, Andrew Sinclair or Tim Wallace-Murphy – so deeply engrossed were they in their “Prince” Henry Sinclair and Knights Templar fantasies involving the discovery of America. The idea that “Prince” Henry Sinclair was connected with the fabricated Zeno voyage was first unjustifiably made by Johan Reinhold Forster during the 1780s; the Zeno voyage itself was only first given in 1558, some centuries after the alleged event. The first time that the Knights Templar became linked with Rosslyn was after Pierre Plantard applied “St Clair” to his surname in 1975, and it was this confusion of madness that generated the modern myth (note that the St Clair's of Rosslyn testified against the Knights Templar during their suppression).
Anne Stine Ingstad, The Discovery of A Norse Settlement In America (Two Volumes, Iniversitetsforlaget, 1977)
