Everything about Carl Christian Rafn totally explained
Carl Christian Rafn (
January 16,
1795 –
October 20,
1864) was a
Danish antiquarian noted for his early advocacy of the theory that the
Vikings had explored
North America centuries before
Christopher Columbus's and
John Cabot's voyages.
Rafn was particularly interested in discovering the location of the
Vinland mentioned in
Norse sagas. Rafn believed Vinland to have been in modern-day
New England in the
United States.
Rafn published much of his work in
1837 in the
Antiquitates Americanæ. It is considered the first scholarly exposition of the
Pre-Columbian Norse exploration theory. At the time of Rafn's research, the Norse sagas concerning Vinland were considered by most scholars to be mere legends.
Rafn was partially vindicated in the
1960s by the discovery of the
Viking settlement at
L'Anse aux Meadows in northern
Newfoundland,
Canada.
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