Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen, about the year 1000 CE.
Archaeology has given support to the long-held theory that old Norse sagas show Vikings reached North America approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus. In 1960 archaeological evidence of the only known Norse settlement in North America (outside of Greenland) was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This proved conclusively the Vikings' pre-Columbian discovery of North America. Recent archaeological studies suggest that this site is not the Vinland of the Norse accounts in its entirety but was the entrance to a larger region called Vinland by the Norse.
The name Vinland has been interpreted in two ways: traditionally as Vínland ("wine-land") and more recently as Vinland (meadow- or pasture-land).
The earliest etymology of "Vinland" is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th Century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis ("Description of the Northern Islands"): "Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine." (Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a multis in eo repertam occeano, quae dicitur Winland, eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum optimum ferentes). The implication is that the first element is Old Norse vín (Latin vinum), "wine".
Forward: ride the ocean's waves
be bold: glory to the brave
Deep the sea: above me eternal sky
freezing winds: cold to the limbs: the waves are high
sleepless nights: the bleak moonlight: the chill and damp
by morning light: a strip of land we see
Vinland: crossing the endless raging ocean
Vinland: follow the stars and the sign of the raven
Vinland: watch the horizon for the strip of the western land
Vinland: plough through the waves white wolfs at a raging sea
The wind: mighty: fills your sail
onward: to the land in your fathers' tale
Forward brothers: reward awaits the bold and brave
white sons of north: through hail and storms: we rode the waves
we beach the ship upon the coast of western land
and rest our tired limbs among the reed and sand
Vinland: crossing the endless raging ocean
Vinland: follow the stars and the sign of the raven
Vinland: watch the horizon for the strip of the western land
Left the coast of Norway behind
With vengeance burning in our minds
All determined to return one day
As Sol will shine
Across the open sea, to Vinland and test our steel
Longships towards a black horizon
Like our fathers in the past
We shall have our victory at last
Rubble, chaos, death and decay
Through dead cities on our way
From the east coast to the west
Our forces grow by the day
Across the open sea, to Vinland and test our steel
Longships towards a black horizon
Like our fathers in the past
We shall have our victory at last
Repeat verse 1 & chorus
Fearless with swords drawn into battle
Like our fathers in the past