Helge Ingstad

Helge Marcus Ingstad (December 30, 1899 - March 29, 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. Ingstad later authored the monumental work The Land of Feast and Famine. Ingstad was also a trapper and had originally intended to become a lawyer. He became governor of Eric the Red's Land[?], in 1932 to 1933. When Norway annexed the East part of Greenland. An international court decided that the lands belonged to Denmark, so was given back.