The idea with the Vinland-Mi´kma´ki Trail is to strengthen the existing tourism products in Atlantic Canada including the Viking Trail in Newfoundland and the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia. The thesis further proposes a new Vinland-Mi'kma'ki Trail that would connect the various Vinland Saga sites with historical and mythological Mi´kmaq sites in Atlantic Canada. This thesis investigates the potential location of the places in the Sagas and argues that the Vinland of Leif Eiriksson was practically the same area as Mi´kma´ki, the ancestral land of the Mi´kmaq people. The Sagas include descriptions of places, wildlife and indigenous peoples in the Vinland region. The stories of the Norse (Viking) explorations to North America are preserved in two ancient Icelandic Sagas, “The Saga of the Greenlanders” and “The Saga of Eirik the Red”. He named the land Vinland (Land of Vine). Lawrence and found a land rich in resources, including wild grapes. In around 1000AD the Norse (Viking) explorer Leif Eiriksson sailed into the Gulf of St.
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