Timeline (Anse Aux Meadows)

Abt 1000 AD

Leif's brother Thorvald Eiriksson sailed with a crew of 30 men to Newfoundland and spent the following winter at Leif's camp. In the spring, Thorvald moved to attack but stayed his hand, making peace and friendship overtures with nine of the local people who were sleeping under three skin-covered canoes. One of the locals attempted to kill one of the Norsemen, and was killed in defense, but the remaining eight sough peace with the Europeans.

Although brief peace ensued, the Norse explorers stayed another two winters and left the following spring. A larger force returned to set up a base, further south, and left after the summer finished, for Greenland.

In 1009 Thorfinn Karlsefni, also known as "Thorfinn the Valiant", supplied three ships with livestock and 160 men and women (although another source sets the number of settlers at 250). After a cruel winter, he headed south and landed at Straumfjord but later moved to Straumsöy, possibly because the current was stronger there. A sign of peaceful relations between the indigenous peoples and the Norsemen is noted here; the two sides bartered with furs and gray squirrel skins for milk and red cloth, which the natives tied around their heads as a sort of headdress.

Although initially frightened by one of Thorfinn's bulls, the natives were soon pacified, and relations between the two camps increased in peaceful friendship.

The settlement of Straumsöy grew to such size that colonists from Greenland and Iceland stopped there before continuing further south along the coasts.

First treaty between the Norse and the First Nations is signed, setting the stage for future interactions.

Snorri Sturluson arrives by way of Greenland with the last of the refugee Greenlanders. He is taken to the capital, where he is lauded for restoring the stories of Eric, and Leif Ericsson.