Mystery Surrounds Possible Oldest Church in North America

Yahoo News ^ | April 16, 2007 | Heather Whipps

[dangus]

Gee, thanks! Excellent research!

[colorado tanker]

Here's the Wiki description of L'Anse aux Meadows, the only Viking settlement found so far in North America, but it was small and no church has been discovered there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows

[PAR35]

What a stupid decision....

Or she wanted to destroy evidence that she had cooked her data. If she had confidence that it would support her theory, there would have been no reason to have it destroyed.

[dangus]

I recalled there being a “diocese in North America,” founded by Erikson; as I read other sources, it plainly referred to Greenland.

[colorado tanker]

It would make sense to me that any North American mainland settlements would have their churches attached to the Greenland diocese, because the numbers would be so small. Of course, that’s assuming there were more than just L’Anse.

[rdl6989]

You’d think she would want her papers preserved in the university archive. What a shame.