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2022-08-27 04 Silhouette sculpture of Norsemen above L'Anse aux Meadows, NFL CAN
2022-08-27
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Norse silhouette sculpture above L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland Canada on August 27, 2022.
This sculpture commemorates the arrival of the Vikings in approximately 1021 and was designed by New Brunswick artist, Karen Van Niekerk. It is made of corten steel, 10 millimeters thick and approximately 2.4 meters high,
Most of the Norse figures look southeast to symbolize their intent to use L’Anse aux Meadows as a base camp to explore further southward from Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula. One looks back to southern Greenland from whence they came. There is a woman figure indicative of families that came during the period that L'Anse aux Meadows was used as a base camp.
