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Canada Vignettes: The Visitor
19791 minFilm: Documentary
Script: Josef Reeve
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada.
The medieval Norse claimed in their sagas to have reached Vinland. Could this extremely significant archaeological find substantiate the Norse claim? Far to the north, on Baffin Island, a tiny carved wooden figure is discovered. The figure is clothed in a long, pleated and hooded robe, and, incised on the chest of this small mysterious artifact is a Christian cross.
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Subject categories
- History - Canada > Arctic RegionArtifacts
- Archaeology > Prehistoric LifeVikings
- Canada - Images of a Country > Vignettes
Credits
- script
- Josef Reeve
- narrator
- Vlasta Vrana